Life Quotes
A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
As was his language so was his life.Seneca
Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.Charles M. Schulz
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.Will Rogers
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything both ways save us from thinking.Theodore Isaac Rubin
Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.Immanuel Kant
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.Isaac Bashevis Singe
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.Albert Einstein
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
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
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.Laurence Sterne
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.Author Unknown
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.Dave Barry
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
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
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.B. J. Gupta
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.Truman Capote
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.Plutarch
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
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.George T. Hewitt
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".
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.Eugene Delacroix
