Life Quotes
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
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
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
What we play is life.Louis Armstrong
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.Pedro Calderon de la Barca
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.Author Unknown
It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.Anthony Robbins
Without music, life would be a mistake.Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is life itself.John Dewey
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whose life is it anyway.Brian Clark
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.H Hahn Blavatsky
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.Harry Emerson Fosdick
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Old Indian saying
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
There is no wealth but life.John Ruskin
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.Confucius
Take a chance All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.Dale Carnegie
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.H. G. Wells
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.Mary Lyon
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.Juvenal
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.Sara Teasdale
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.Margot Fonteyn
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.Emily Dickinson
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.Colin Raye
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.Laurie E. Colwin
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
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.Barbara De Angelis
