Life Quotes

F. scott fitzgerald - to write it, it took three months; to conceive...
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.
M. R. Vincent
Douglas adams - he felt that his whole life was some kind of...
Unknown - count your life by smiles, not tears. count your...
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Antoine De Saint - Exupery
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
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.
G. K. Chesterton
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
Charles Caleb Colton
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Herbert Henry Asquith
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
Margaret Lowenfeld
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rathe
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Osho, The art of Dying
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Johann von Goethe
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Douglas Lurtan
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
Felix Adle
Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.
Irving
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Kahlil Gibran
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
M. Cartmill
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