Life Quotes

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Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.
Unknown
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
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D. h. lawrence - the great virtue in life is real courage that...
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mohandas Ghandi
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James Barrie
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Johann von Goethe
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
Henry David Thoreau
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.
Unknown
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
The Talmud
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".
The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.
Hermann Hesse
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.
H. P. Lovecraft
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
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Samuel Butle
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Charles Dickens
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.
Charlie Chaplin
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson