Life Quotes

What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Lu Yen

People who keep journals have life twice.

Jessamyn West

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12

Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace, Satires

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.

Grayson Kirk

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

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

G. Hoppe

Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is too long not to be happy.

Thom Barbe

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Victor Hugo

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Margaret Fulle

One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.

Thomas Carlyle

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Frank Gelett Burgess

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Unknown

We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganised.? I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising: and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.

Caius Petronius, Roman Consul, 66 A. D.

Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles Monroe Schultz