Life Quotes
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.Henry David Thoreau
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.Akhenaton
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.Benjamin Franklin
We learn not in the school, but in life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.Mark Twain
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.Author Unknown
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.Sun Bea
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.William Feathe
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.Harold Loukes
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.Walter Scott
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.Dorothy Parke
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Death ends a life, not a relationship.Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.M. Cartmill
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.Vivian Baxte
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life - Style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.Hunter S. Thompson
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.Barry Switze
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.Confucius
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.Sir Thomas Browne
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.Stan Getz
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is wasted on the living.Douglas Adams
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.Albert Einstein
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.Robert Burns
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
