Life Quotes

This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

Seneca

Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagne

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

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

Love is the very essence of life.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Asto

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.

Confucius

Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Anthony Trollope

Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.

Author Unknown

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

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

God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.

Kahlil Gibran

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

There must be more to life than having everything.

Maurice Sendak

You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top

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

Assyrian Prove

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud