Life Quotes
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)
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.Nathaniel Hawthorne
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.D. H. Lawrence
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.Henry Adams
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
Life is too short to be sensible.Unknown
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
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
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.Nelson Henderson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.Helen Kelle
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.James M. Barrie
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.William Osle
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.Carl Sandburg
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
It violates right order whenever capital so employees the working or wage - Earning classes as to divert business and economic activity entirely to its own arbitrary will and advantage without, the social character of economic life, social justice, and the common good.Pope Pius XI
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.William Shakespeare
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.W. Somerset Maugham
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.Amelia Bu
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.Albert Schweitze
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.Unknown
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.Calvin Coolidge
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.Robin Norwood
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.Douglas Adams