Life Quotes

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Marcus tullius cicero - for if that last day does not occasion an entire...
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.
Anonymous
O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Saint Augustine
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
Emanuel swedenborg, from the book
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Author unknown - to save time is to lengthen life....
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
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.
Thomas A. Edison
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
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
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Communist Manifesto
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
Albert Einstein
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.
Unknown
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulme
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Grace Paley
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.
Unknown
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
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
W. Somerset Maugham
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
From the last episode of "Cheers".
Life is short; live it up.
Khrushchev
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.
Eli Khamarov
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Old Indian saying
Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.
David Van Boom
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Life is a risk.
Diane Von Furstenberg
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe