Life Quotes

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993

Life is consciousness.

Emmet Fox

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pinda

Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.

Unknown

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Albert Schweitze

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy.

Tyron Edwards

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

Joseph Addison

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhaue

I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H. G. Wells

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.

Rachel Carson

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

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

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreine

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthime

Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha