Life Quotes
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.Albert Einstein
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.Luke Rhinehart
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.Hannah Whitall Smith
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.Unknown
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.Richard Burton
Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.Richard Bach
Blindness and error can change a life as surely as judgment and reason can.M. Morris
Count your life by smiles, not tears. Count your age by friends, not years.Unknown
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.Ivy Baker Priest
It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.Vida D. Scudde
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
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D. H. Lawrence
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.Angela Schwindt
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.Phillips Brooks
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.Roger Banniste
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.Bertolt Brecht
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.Stephen Vincent Benet
The difficulty in life is the choice.George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.Josh Billings
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
Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.Zelda