Life Quotes

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

Life is short; live it up.

Khrushchev

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.

Dr. Thomas Dooley

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.

Barry Schwartz

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.

Lucius Accius

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

Amelia Ba

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.

Charlie Chaplin

It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - It is one damn thing over and over.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.

Sophocles

Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.

Richard Guggenheime

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

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

Actions have consequences... first rule of life. And the second rule is this - You are the only one responsible for your own actions.

Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Arthur Helps

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003