Life Quotes
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.Anais Nin
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.Will Rogers
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.Sun Bea
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker T. Washington
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
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
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.Richard Milhous Nixon
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.Robertson Davies
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.Author Unknown
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.Ursula K. LeGuin
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?Margot Fonteyn
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.Alan John Percivale Taylo
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
We are each responsible for our own life - No other person is or even can be.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.David Van Boom
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.Frederika Breme
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.James Truslow Adams
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
We learn not in the school, but in life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.Mary Beth Danielson
I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.Eli Khamarov
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.Erma Bombeck
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form 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.Gaius Petronius
