Life Quotes

Norman maile - there was that law of life, so cruel and so just,...
Harry emerson fosdick - life is a library owned by an author. it has a...
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
Helen Merrell Lynd
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.
Erich Fromm
T. s. elliot - you can evade life, but you can not evade death....
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Karen Kaiser Clark
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Sri da Avabhas
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreine
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
To save time is to lengthen life.
Author Unknown
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
George Santayana
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
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marcel Marceau
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katherine Hepburn
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
John F. Kennedy
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Robert Browning
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.
Unknown
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
Dean Koontz, Watchers
I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Henry David Thoreau