Life Quotes

One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Juvenal, Satires

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.

Stephen

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 as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.

Wilfred Wilson Gibson

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Cherokee Prove

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.

Bob Newhart

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.

Ben Stein

You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.

Hannah Nixon

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

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

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.

George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty

Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.

Percy B. Shelley

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

Life..... is a series of dogs.

George Carlin

The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.

Richard Bach

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjld

Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.

Unknown

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadte