Life Quotes
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.Bertrand Russell
Dont go through life, GROW through life.Eric Butterworth
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preache
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.Raoul Vaneigem
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Richard Bach
Just as the sand - Dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.Rusty Berkus
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.Charles Caleb Colton
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.Norman Thomas
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 to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.Saint Augustine
Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.Unknown
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.Norman Cousins
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.Frank Gelett Burgess
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.Laurens Van der Post
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.Pablo Casals
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.Dr. David M. Burns
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.Gaius Julius Caesa
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.Anonymous
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.Samuel Johnson
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.George Bernard Shaw
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.H. T. Leslie
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.Mary Manin Boggs
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.John Henry Newman
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.Sir Laurence Olivie
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.Jeseph Joubert
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
