Life Quotes
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.Francis Bacon
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.Frank Lloyd Wright
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.Marlin Finch Lupus
Life is too short to be taken seriously.Author Unknown
Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.Richard Willard Armou
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.Vida D. Scudde
Dont go through life, GROW through life.Eric Butterworth
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires (early book)
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.Albert Einstein
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.Peter Coope
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.Max Nordau
One only needs two tools in life WD - 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.G. Weilache
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.Gottfried Reinhardt
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.Plutarch
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.Rainer Maria Rilke
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.Erik H. Erikson
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.George Washington Carve
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.Winston Churchill
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Arbie M. Dale
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
