Life Quotes

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

Life is a dream from which we must wake before we can dream again.

Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline.

Becky Alunan

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alen Coren

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

Alexander A. Bogomoletz

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann von Goethe

People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.

G. K. Chesterton

In life, as in chess, forethought wins.

Charles Roberts Buxton

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Oswald Mosley

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

La Bruyere

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Jean Ke

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.

Joel Patrick Warneke

And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.

Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

Arthur Helps

And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Walt Whitman

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Joseph Addison

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Plato, The Republic

To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.

Henry David Thoreau

A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

Gene Roddenberry

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003