Life Quotes
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
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
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.Michael Landon
Remember Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.Miles Davis
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!Edwin Louis Cole
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.Flora Colao
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.George Santayana
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard Byrd
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!Friedrich Nietzsche
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.Carl Van Vechten
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.Edmund White
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.Thomas Jefferson
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.Peter McWilliams
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.Reverend Edward A. Malloy
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Oscar Wilde
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas Browne
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.Chris Evert
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.Henry James
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.Edwin Conklin
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.Author Unknown
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.Henry David Thoreau
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Moshe Arens
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.George Bernard Shaw
Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.Edith Wharton
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.David Starr Jordan
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.Emil Brunne
