Life Quotes

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

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippman

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.

Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise".

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preache

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Earl Warren

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

Seami Motokiyo

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.

Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a continual upgrade.

J. Mark Wallace

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Patricia Russell - McCloud