Life Quotes
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?Unknown
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.Theodore Roosevelt
Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.Walt Whitman
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.Sir Thomas Browne
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Arbie M. Dale
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.Benjamin Franklin
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.Miyamoto Musashi
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.Marion Howard
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.Anonymous
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.Thomas Jefferson
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.Andrew Bonar Law
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.Jane Wagne
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.H. Jackson Browne
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.Swordfish
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.Mike Leonard
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.Bible
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.Lillian Dickson
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.Orison Swett Marden
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.Yann Martel, Life of Pi
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.Iris Murdoch
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.Michael Sinz
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.W. C. Fields
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.Lou Reed
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.Latin
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.Alan Stewart Paton