Life Quotes

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
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
Maxwell maltz, communication bulletin for managers & supervisors, june 2004 - we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life...
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1890
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Johann von Goethe
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Ralph waldo emerson - life is a perpetual instruction in cause and...
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
Harold S. Kushne
Henry david thoreau - why should we live with such hurry and waste of...
To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
The Best of the Best (motion picture)
Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.
Andrew Bonar Law
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
Plunge boldly into the thick of life.
Johann von Goethe
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne
Life... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
Helen Hayes
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek Prove
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feathe
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.
Angela Schwindt
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.
Unknown
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.
M. Morris
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
Kahlil Gibran
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
Newell Dwight Hillis
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.
Charles A. Stoddard
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge