Life Quotes
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.Benjamin H. Brewste
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002
Where there is love there is life.Mahatma Gandhi
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.Homer, The Iliad
The bigger the real - Life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy - Land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.Tom Naylo
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.Aeschylus
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.Anonymous
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.Lester Bangs
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.John Sales
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.Jim Davis
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.Henry David Thoreau
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.D. H. Lawrence
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.Katherine Hepburn
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.Robert Browning
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
We trained hard, but it seemed 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.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.Allen Ginsberg
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.Agnes de Mille
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.Henry David Thoreau
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.Douglas Lurtan
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.William Faulkne
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.Woody Allen
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Arbie M. Dale
