Life Quotes
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.Forest Witcraft
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.Muhammad Ali
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.Epictetus
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.Henri Estienne
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.Vijay Krishna
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.Henri Frdric Amiel
What profits a man if he keeps his eternal soul when he could have lived life to the full and been forgiven at the end of it all anyway?David Merritt, a. k. a. THE RED SHARK
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.Felix Adle
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - It is one damn thing over and over.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.Henry Drummond
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.Ayn Rand
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.A. Bronson Alcott
In order to write about life, first you must live it!Ernest Hemingway
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.Bible
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
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.Sir Winston Churchill
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.Francis Bacon
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
