Life Quotes

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frdric Amiel

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Maile

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pink Floyd

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elde

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Gree

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Emil Brunne

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gel

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

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

James Barrie

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

Yukio Mishima

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

All that counts in life is intention.

Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide

One only needs two tools in life WD - 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

G. Weilache

Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.

Yiddish Prove

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Moshe Arens

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw

Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.

Jacob Bigelow

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

Stephen Leacock

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

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

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

George Lorime

My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

Gilda Radne