Life Quotes

Norman thomas - the secret of a good life is to have the right...
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.
Okakura Kakuzo
A well - Developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Arabian Prove
Charles augustus lindbergh, jr. - it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the...
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Hellen Kelle
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Sir Laurence Olivie
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
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
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Albert Einstein
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
Alicia Barnhart
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.
Damon Runyon
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.
Overheard in Palo Alto...
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
John Macy
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Seneca, Epistles