Life Quotes
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.G. K. Chesterton
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.Henry Havelock Ellis
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
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
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.Detronius Arbite
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.Henry David Thoreau
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.Christiane Northrup, M. D.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.Karl Kraus
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.Henry Stimson
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.Thornton Wilde
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.Katherine Hepburn
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.Author Unknown
Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.Unknown
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.Jack Penn
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.Samuel Butle
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.James Barrie
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Albert Camus
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
