Life Quotes

Robertson davies - a happy childhood has spoiled many a promising...
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
Unknown - immortality lies not in the things you leave...
The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
William James
There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
S? ren Kierkegaard
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Albert Einstein
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.
Dwight D Eisenhowe
Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway
John henry newman - fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but...
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Mike Leonard
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
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
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulme
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Johann Von Schille
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Amelia Bu
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Sir Francis Bacon
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hoope
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
Lu Yen
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
Omar Khayym
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast - Table", 1872
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Lord Tennyson
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson