Life Quotes
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.Phillips Brooks
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.Marie Curie
We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.Cato the Elde
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Lydia Sigourney
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.Pope John Paul II
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.Hannah Whitall Smith
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.Sir Thomas Browne
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.Lord Byron, Don Juan
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Cherokee Prove
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.Frank Gelett Burgess
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkne
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.Benjamin Franklin
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl Barth
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.Brian Andreas
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.Albert Camus
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.Will Rogers
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.H. G. Wells
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.Montesquieu
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.Herman Melville
Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.Chrisopher Walken
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
