Life Quotes

Dr. smiley blanton - the truth is that all of us attain the greatest...
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast - Table", 1872
Victor hugo - he who every morning plans the transaction of the...
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Browne
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.
Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Author Unknown
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
Ayn rand, atlas shrugged - do not let your fire go out, spark by...
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Barrie
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Tieck
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
Margaret Lowenfeld
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.
Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Foster C. McClellan
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
Forest Witcraft
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.
Hugh Prathe
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky
True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.
Hannah Nixon
I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.
William Frank Buckley, Jr.
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwa
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - - My youth.
Sara Teasdale
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
W. H. Davies
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.
W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957
Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.
Unknown