Life Quotes

Samuel johnson - the fountain of content must spring up in the...
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
Albert Schweitze
Sun bea - when humans participate in ceremony, they enter a...
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.
Oswald Mosley
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.
Dax Ward
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
George Bernard Shaw
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.
Richard Guggenheime
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
Abigail adams, letter to her sister, mary smith cranch, 1784 - i begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in...
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.
William James
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
A man without trust is a man without life.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.
Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
Johann von Goethe
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.
Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
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
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean - Paul Sartre
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Danish prove
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
Judith Stern
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
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 one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau