Life Quotes

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.

Maureen Hawkins

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.

Roger Banniste

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehre

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Blyth

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

John Patrick

the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

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

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Emil Nolde

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

Nikki Giovanni

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Hellen Kelle

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

Henry Adams

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo

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

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

Iris Murdoch

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson

I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

William J. Locke

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.

Dorothy Thompson

This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

Seneca

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

Grace Speare