Life Quotes

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

William James

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 that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.

Norman Cousins

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Life is a risk.

Diane Von Furstenberg

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To save time is to lengthen life.

Author Unknown

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.

Lillian Dickson

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Albert Camus

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

There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Lynd

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Friedrich Von Schlegel

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Blyth

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Richard Burton

The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Unknown

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".

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

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus