Life Quotes

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Fulton john sheen - life is like a cash register, in that every...
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it? three minutes; to collect the data in it? all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
Searamouche
Laurence sterne - a large volume of adventures may be grasped...
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
Samuel butle - life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions...
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.
Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
Isaac Rosenfeld
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
Life is too short to be sensible.
Unknown
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
Randolph Bourne
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.
Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
Hope is only the love of life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.
Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.
Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze
As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles De Gaulle
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
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
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey