Life Quotes

Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.

Don DeLillo

Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.

Nicholas Murray Butle

Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Akhenaton

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilde

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhaue

It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Ernest Rutheford

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca

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

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Sydney Smith

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Harold S. Kushne

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Christopher Morley

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

Frank Moore Colby

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.

Charles M. Schwa

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.

John Harold