Life Quotes

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Pablo Picasso

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.

Assyrian Prove

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

Irving

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Catherine Bateson

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.

William James

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.

Robert A. Heinlein

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Samuel Butle

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

Susan Polis Schutz

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Maya Angelou

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

Robert Lynd

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Ann Landers

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life - Style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

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

Karen Horney

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.

M. C. Richards