Life Quotes

Sir winston churchill - we make a living by what we get, we make a life...
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zelda - most people hew the battlements of life from...
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
Dave Barry
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
Herbert W. Boyer, co - Founder of Genentech, Inc.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Rainer Maria Rilke
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
Plato
A well - written life is almost as rare as a well - Spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.
H. P. Lovecraft
Plunge boldly into the thick of life.
Johann von Goethe
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.
Juvenal
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
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato, The Republic
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.
Mary Cholmondeley
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
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Arbie M. Dale
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
Henry David Thoreau
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
George Tooke
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Marcel Proust
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
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
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
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.
Voltaire
All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
Muriel Spark
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.
Erica Jong