Life Quotes

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

James Barrie

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost, The Black Cottage

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

Stephen Leacock

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Traditional Indian Saying

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.

Elizabeth Bowen

Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.

Chrisopher Walken

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

Albert Einstein

One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Edward B. Butle

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Meryl Streep

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

A fanatic is one compelled to action by the need to find a strong meaning in life. The fanatic determines for himself what role he is to play in life, and his intense devotion to a cause is the means.

Eugene E. Brussell

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

Michael Sinz

We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.

Unknown

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace, Satires

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.

Dwight D Eisenhowe

The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau

Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.

Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)

In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.

Martin Luthe

Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.

Eugene McCarthy

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Bill Watterson, cartoonist

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Gagehot

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Zelda

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Horace Walpole

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

Henry Boye