Life Quotes

Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.

Margaret Lowenfeld

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

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

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

Henry Mille

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.

Ben Stein

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

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

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Elbert Hubbard

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

Juvenal

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.

Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Life is a promise fulfill it.

Mother Theresa

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

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

Andrew Brown

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

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

George Santayana

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon