Life Quotes

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preache

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

Celebrations are the juice of life.

John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.

Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Unknown

Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Jean Giraudoux

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.

Prophet Mohammed, Muslim

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

George Lorime

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

Henry Boye

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

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Jack Penn

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

Carl Sagan

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.

Basil W. Maturin

Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

Laurens Van der Post

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

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

George Sand

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

William James

Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton