Life Quotes

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
The Lockhorns
Confucius, the confucian analects - the man who in view of gain thinks of...
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".
George bernard shaw - life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take...
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Longfellow
Andrew soloman, the noonday demon: an atlas of depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide - don't think you are paying me some kind of...
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.
Andrew Schneide
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Maitri Upanishads
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
Whittaker Chambers
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.
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Sri da Avabhas
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
The Talmud
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
When life is kicking others in the teeth, Become a dentist.
Kevin Meyers
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Ayn Rand
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Marcel Proust
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.
Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.
Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go - Go Boots" (personal essay)
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
David Grayson
To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Henry Ward Beeche