Life Quotes

One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

Juvenal

Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks

The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

James Barrie

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

Assyrian Prove

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

R. D. Laing

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.

Sir Walter Raleigh

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.

Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12

I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.

Margery Cuyle

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt

Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

David Starr Jordan

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.

Meryl Streep

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie