Life Quotes
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.Elizabeth Henry
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Cardinal Newman
In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.James Agee
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.Mary Beth Danielson
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.Rig Veda
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.Robert Frost
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
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.Author Unknown
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.William Lyon Phelps
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.Robyn Davidson
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.Searamouche
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.Richard M. DeVos
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go - Go Boots" (personal essay)
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.Cicero
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pinda
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.Nathan Hale
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.Mrs. Sigourney
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.David McCullough
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.Kathleen Norris
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
The only real failure in life is the failure to try.Unknown
