Life Quotes

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

Anais Nin

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.

George Gordon Byron

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Mary Catherine Bateson

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.

Hannah Nixon

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Danish prove

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

Brendan Gill

Life goes on within you and without you.

George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe

Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

W. R. Inge

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.

Mary Lyon

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Robert Browning

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

David Van Boom

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)

Our brains are seventy - Year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Hfiz

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Loomis Pound

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

Margot Fonteyn

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.

Kahlil Gibran

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.

Nido Qubein

Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Harry S Truman

We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

David Gerrold

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot