Life Quotes
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru
One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.Roosevelt, Eleano
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.Ernestine Ulme
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
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.Mary Catherine Bateson
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.Dr. David M. Burns
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
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.Deepak Chopra
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.Henry J. Tillman
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
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
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.Evelyn Underhill
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.Vince Lombardi
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.Leo Tolstoy
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.Seneca
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.Lou Reed
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
Life is full of obstacle illusions.Grant Frazie
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.James Harvey Robinson
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.Unknown
Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.John Lennon, Imagine
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.Albert Einstein
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.Dorothy Day
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
