Life Quotes
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.Apuleius
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....Richard Bach
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
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
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.Jack Penn
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.Harry S. Truman
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.Will Rogers
It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.Unknown
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.Hendrik W. Van Loon
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?George Eliot
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.Johann von Goethe
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
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.Carl Jung
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.Cicero
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.Mike Leonard
Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.Richard I. Winword
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.Jean Toome
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.Miles Davis
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.Fulton John Sheen
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.Lewis Carroll
I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.Christa McAuliffe
Music is essentially useless, as life is.George Santayana
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy When work is a duty, life is slavery.Maxim Gorky
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.Sir Francis Bacon
