Life Quotes

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.
Juvenal
Thomas jefferson - the bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life....
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
Sri da Avabhas
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
Laurens van der post - life begins as a quest of the child for the man...
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
Marlin finch lupus - we seek the comfort of another. someone to share...
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.
John Ruskin
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
David Letterman
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.
C. H. Cooley
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
Life is a dead - End street.
Henry Louis Mencken
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
H. G. Wells
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
William Orville Douglas
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.
Juvenal
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.
Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.
Karl Poppe
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
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Moshe Arens
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Bertrand Russell
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Jacques Martin Barzun
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
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
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".