Life Quotes

George orwell - for the ordinary man is passive. within a narrow...
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
Ludwig van beethoven - music is the mediator between the spiritual and...
Thomas jefferson - the bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life....
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Buddha
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butle
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.
Percy B. Shelley
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P. D. James
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Dr. Robert Schulle
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Life goes on within you and without you.
George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
Henry David Thoreau
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
Loren Eiseley
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.
Henry Van Dyke
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
Ivan Pavlov
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras