Life Quotes
Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.Thomas Jefferson
Life itself is a quotation.Jorge Luis Borges
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.Unknown
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.Jorge Luis Borges
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Ann Landers
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.Richard Leide
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.Sallust
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.Zora Neale Hurston
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.George Woodberry
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.Erich Fromm
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.Bill Watterson, cartoonist
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.G. Hoppe
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.Henry Ford
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.Unknown
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.La Bruyere
Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.Henry James
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
