Life Quotes

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

Thomas Carlyle

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Juvenal

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.

Erica Jong

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Ann Landers

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Clarence Darrow

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

James M. Barrie

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.

Edwin Whipple

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Thomas Arnold Bennett

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

Ernest Hemingway

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

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

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Edith Hamilton

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English prove

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison