Life Quotes
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.Laura Ingalls Wilde
Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.Old School
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.Jean Toome
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.Homer, The Iliad
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.Arthur Rubinstein
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.C. H. Cooley
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.Friedrich Nietzche
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.Yiddish Prove
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.Dave Barry
Oregano is the spice of life.Henry J. Tillman
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Life is too short for a long story.Mary Wortley Montagu
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.John Updike
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.Piero Ferrucci
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.James Barrie
Security is when everything is settled, when nothing can happen to you; security is the denial of life.Germaine Gree
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.Bette Davis
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.Thomas Carlyle
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
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
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.Eugene Kennedy
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
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
