Life Quotes
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Breme
Art washes away the dust of everyday life.Pablo Picasso
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.D. H. Lawrence
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.George Bernard Shaw
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.Douglas Lurtan
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
Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.Anonymous
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.Harold S. Kushne
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.Smiley Blanton
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.Robert F. Bennett
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.E. M. Forste
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
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.Thich Nhat Hanh
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinley
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.Flora Colao
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.Ursula K. LeGuin
Life is made up of marble and mud.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.Confucius
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.Les Brown
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.Randolph Bourne
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.Ben Stein
