Life Quotes
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
There is more to life than increasing its speed.Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.Joseph Addison
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.Dudley Field Malone
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.Che
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.William Wordsworth
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.La Rochefoucauld
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert Byrne
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.Mohammad Haroon
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.Unknown
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.Lewis Carroll
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.Kelle
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.Phillips Brooks
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.Tom Lehre
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
