Life Quotes

Quoted by benjamin franklin, pearls of wisdom, by jerome agel and walter d. glanze - a long life may not be good enough, but a good...
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow Adams
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
Earl warren - everything i did in my life that was worthwhile i...
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
William Lyon Phelps
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Confucious
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
Chauncey Depew
Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.
Rig Veda
There is a need for heroism in American life today.
Vicki Baum
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.
W. Edward Brown
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.
Bette Davis
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
David Grayson
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.
Thomas Mann
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.
Michael Sherme
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
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
Colin Raye
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley