Life Quotes

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.

Randolph Bourne

Measure your life in love.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

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

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

Author Unknown

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.

Bette Davis

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

George Tooke

People who keep journals have life twice.

Jessamyn West

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Maile

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

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

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

George Bernard Shaw

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.

Katherine D. Ortega

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Lerne

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.

Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2

Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizne

A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

Unknown

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay