Life Quotes
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.Montesquieu
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 Aelius Aurelius
Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.Thomas Peters
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.Camille Paglia
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus.Albert Camus
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.Fran Lebowitz
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.Leo Tolstoy
I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.Benjamin Franklin
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.Oprah Winfrey
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.P. D. James
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.Robertson Davies
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.Eugene Kennedy
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoi
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.Germaine Gree
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.Christopher Morley
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.J. M. Barrie
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.Hilary Duff
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.David Van Boom
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.Henry David Thoreau
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.Barbara De Angelis
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)
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
