Life Quotes

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

William James

Life is too complicated not to be orderly.

Martha Stewart

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.

Chinese Prove

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.

Alfred Adle

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

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

Sri da Avabhas

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjld

Grade school is the snooze button on the clock - Radio of life.

John Rogers

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike

Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.

Arnold Glasgow

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Is there life before death?

Graffito, in Belfast

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.

Homer, The Iliad

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

All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.

Muriel Spark

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

Marie Curie

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson