Life Quotes
Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.Bertrand Russell
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.Hubert H. Humphrey
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.Ecclesiastes
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.Gustave Flaubert
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
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
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.Archibald MacLeish
Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.Thomas Peters
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.Juvenal
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.Oprah Winfrey
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.George Santayana
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.Jacques Martin Barzun
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.Henry David Thoreau
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.Marya Mannes
Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.Unknown
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.Elizabeth II
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.Kermit Eby
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.Shakespeare
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.Michael J. Gel
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.Agatha Christie
