Life Quotes

It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.
Unknown
Eli khamarov - i have found it difficult to endear myself to...
This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
George Bernard Shaw
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.
Ann Landers
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Jules renard - if i were to begin life again, i should want it...
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen
Stephen - music is expression of harmony in sound. love is...
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
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)
I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butle
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.
Damon Runyon
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 Humphrey
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
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".
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
Aristotle
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Marcel Proust
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
Creation is a better means of self - Expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
Vida D. Scudde
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
Albert Camus
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Henry David Thoreau
To save time is to lengthen life.
Author Unknown
None meet life honestly and few heroically.
Clarence Darrow
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.
Emily Dickinson
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - It is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
Robert Lynd
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Nicholas Murray Butle
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Unknown
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo