Life Quotes
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.Erica Jong
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.Meister Eckhart
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
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.Steven Wright
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.Buddha
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.Alcaeus
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
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
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.Paul Gauguin
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.G. Hoppe
I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.Kermit Eby
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
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
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.William James
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.Nina Berberova
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.Bruce Kempe
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.Florence Nightingale
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.William James
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.Arabian Prove
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
