Life Quotes

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Douglas Lurtan

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann von Goethe

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

Grant Frazie

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary S. Calderone

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Walter Lippman

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Buddha

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

Victor Hugo

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Life is either a continuous process improvement, or a terminal disease that we will all die from anyways.

Randy J. Hinrichs

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History (1942)

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

Albert Einstein

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Friedrich Nietzche

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Brandon Lee

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.

David Grayson

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Dr. Robert Schulle

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Abbie M. Dale

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Charles Dickens

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh