Life Quotes
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.Arthur Rubinstein
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
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.Thomas Carlyle
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.George Bernard Shaw
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.Christiane Northrup, M. D.
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.Reverend Edward A. Malloy
Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.Unknown
Life is the childhood of our immortality.Johann von Goethe
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.Bertrand Russell
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
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Unknown
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.Charles Caleb Colton
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.William James
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.Hagar the Horrible
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.Robin Norwood
A well - Developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.William Arthur Ward
To know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Emerson
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.Logan Pearsall Smith
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.Plato
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.Phillips Brooks
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.Oscar Wilde
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002