Life Quotes
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.Kwan - Tzu
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.Henry David Thoreau
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.Boris Pasternak
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Life Is A Challenge - Meet It Life Is A Song - Sing It Life Is A Dream - Realize It Life Is A Game - Play It Life Is Love - Enjoy It.Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.Harriet Lerne
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.Robert Frost
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.Amelia Earhart Putnam
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.Johann Von Schille
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.Herman Melville
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.Patricia Roberts Harris
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.Alexander Senturia
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.Pearl Buck
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.Thomas Aquinas
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
One should count each day a separate life.Seneca
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.Author Unknown
Where there is love there is life.Mahatma Gandhi
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.Jose Ortega y Gasset
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.Dr. Robert Schulle
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
