Life Quotes

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.
Albert Camus, The Strange
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
Roger caras - dogs are not our whole life, but they make our...
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.
Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry
Igor stravinsky - i have learned throughout my life as a composer...
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Tom masson - think of what would happen to us in america if...
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
Alan Woods
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
Kwan - Tzu
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.
George Farquha
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Tieck
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
Leo Tolstoy
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
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Johnson
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.
Unknown
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
Kathleen Norris
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.
Author Unknown
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
Norman Douglas
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Lorime
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.
Srully D. Blotnick
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
Barbara DeAngelis
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
Richard Bach, One
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.
Les Brown
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
Loren Eiseley