Life Quotes
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.Albert Schweitze
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.Norman Thomas
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
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
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
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.Pablo Casals
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
While we are postponing, life speeds by.Seneca
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
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
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.Henri Estienne
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
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
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.Stanley Lindquist
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.Marcel Proust
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.Unknown
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.Euripedes, Medea
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.Henry Boye
Death hath so many doors to let out life.John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.Confucius
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.George Eliot
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.Stephen King
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
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
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.Latin Prove
