Life Quotes

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pinda

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

Danny Kaye

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Ben Stein

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkne

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Arthur Helps

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.

Kingsley Amis

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.

H Hahn Blavatsky

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Henry Van Dyke

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alen Coren

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.

Unknown

Oregano is the spice of life.

Henry J. Tillman