Life Quotes
People who keep journals have life twice.Jessamyn West
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.Robert Lynd
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
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
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.Carolyn Heilbrun
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.Aldous Huxley
I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
Life itself is a quotation.Jorge Luis Borges
All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.Jane Wagne
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.Robert
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.Samuel Smiles
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.John Christian Bovee
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.Benjamin H. Brewste
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
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.Angelina Jolie
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.Benjamin Franklin
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.Cicero
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.John Claypool
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.George Bernard Shaw
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
