Life Quotes

Henry wadsworth longfellow - tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an...
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
Dag Hammarskjld
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Sivanada
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Friedrich Nietzche
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Swordfish
Henry david thoreau - the cost of a things is the amount of what i call...
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
Terry Josephson
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
Grayson Kirk
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
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.
Arnold Bennett
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
Unknown
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It.
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.
Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.
John Ruskin
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Sri da Avabhas
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.
Thomas Arnold Bennett
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
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