Life Quotes

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

As was his language so was his life.

Seneca

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

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

Erich Fromm

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves.

Marie Curie

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Helen Merrell Lynd

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

Samuel Smiles

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

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel (1856)

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

Thomas Brackett Reed

If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

Confucius

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, An Autobiography, 1977

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Epictetus

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.

B. J. Gupta

Plunge boldly into the thick of life.

Johann von Goethe

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Roberts Buxton

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Horace Walpole

Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivie

This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.

Richard Milhous Nixon

Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

Albert Einstein

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson