Life Quotes
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.Henry David Thoreau
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.David Russell
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.Sallust
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.Plato
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.Marilyn Ferguson
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.Bette Davis
Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.Chrisopher Walken
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.Barbara De Angelis
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Quoting Churchill.Ronald Reagan
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.Author Unknown
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.Plato
Life is largely a matter of expectation.Horace
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.Oscar Wilde
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Daniel Boorstin
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.Dr. Robert Schulle
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
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.Cyrus Corteise
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.Fitzgerald
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.Jacques Martin Barzun
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
All life is an experiment. The more experiments yoiu make the better.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.Muhammad Ali
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.Jean Ke
