Life Quotes

Peter mcwilliams - in reality, serendipity accounts for one percent...
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
From the last episode of "Cheers".
Seneca, epistulae morales - just as i shall select my ship when i am about to...
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
Kahlil Gibran
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912
Love is the life of humanity.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Rene Angelil
Don miguel ruiz - every human is an artist. the dream of your life...
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitze
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Poppe
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.
Henry Van Dyke
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.
Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
Andrew Bonar Law
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carte
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Benjamin Franklin
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
"Swampman" on Quartz
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.
Clyde Kluckhohn
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
Life is too short for traffic.
Dan Bellack
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann von Goethe
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.
Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Jeseph Joubert
Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.
Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise".
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda