Life Quotes

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
Oswald Spengle
William james - be not afraid of life. believe that life is worth...
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Crowfoot - what is life? it is a flash of a firefly in the...
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
Us declaration of independence - we hold these truths to be self - evident that...
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
Dont go through life, GROW through life.
Eric Butterworth
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.
Jules Renard
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Martin Luthe
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Leo Rosten
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
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
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butle
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilde
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
H. G. Wells
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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 a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.
Irving
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
Life is a festival only to the wise.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Unknown
Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.
Randy J. Hinrichs
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
Albert Schweitze
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Chinese Prove
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Boris Pasternak
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides