Life Quotes

Mary cholmondeley - every day i live i am more convinced that the...
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
Patricia Roberts Harris
Thomas osbert mordaunt - sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife,...
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Paul Gauguin
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.
Walt Whitman
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
Joachim du Bellay
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
Jawaherlal Nehru
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
W. Edwards Deming
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.
Fritjof Capra
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
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
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
Helen Kelle
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Our brains are seventy - Year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
Hfiz
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Piero Ferrucci
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Richard M. DeVos
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fulle
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan