Life Quotes

George gordon byron - it was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings...
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Richard Leide
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Swordfish
Chinese prove - give a man a fish and you feed him for a day....
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.
Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.
Real Live Preache
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Robert Darwin
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreine
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
George Eliot, Romola, 1863
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
Life is short; live it up.
Khrushchev
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
Richard Bach, One
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.
Luella F. Phean
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.
B. J. Gupta
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richte
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.
Orison Swett Marden
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow