Life Quotes

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Charles dudley warne - it is one of those beautiful compensations of...
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Author Unknown
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day
Life is consciousness.
Emmet Fox
Mary hemingway - worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime...
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
Buddha - let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves...
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.
Roger Banniste
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.
Alfred Adle
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
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
Life is too short for traffic.
Dan Bellack
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.
Stephen
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
Isaac Rosenfeld
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.
Rainer Maria Rilke
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an 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
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
Native American 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
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.
Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Stravinsky
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach