Life Quotes

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.

Sherwood Anderson

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Blyth

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.

Jeseph Joubert

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Jean - Paul Sartre

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Ernest Rutheford

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Ayn Rand

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them through his deeds.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams

Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.

Smiley Blanton

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.

Roger Banniste

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Jack Penn

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

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul Friedrich Richte

Life is a continual upgrade.

J. Mark Wallace

One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson