Life Quotes

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Dame Rose Macaulay

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.

Bertrand Russell

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Detronius Arbite

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Asto

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.

Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise".

succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.

Teddy Carroll

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Kenny Ausubel

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

Author Unknown

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne