Life Quotes

Lois mcmaster bujold - but pain... seems to me an insufficient reason...
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.
Anonymous
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Peter Coope
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
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
Anatole france - suffering. we owe to it all that is good in us,...
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV
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
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Faulkne
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.
Andrew Schneide
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
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.
Richard Willard Armou
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
Jimmy Carte
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.
Les Brown
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
Bruce Lee
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham
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
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4
If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons maybe by shoving them down his throat.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. Chesterton
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
Just like the falling rainbow Just like the stars in the sky Life should never feel small.
Vearncombe, Black, "Paradise".
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
La Bruyere