Life Quotes

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.

James E. Faust

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.

Anthony Robbins

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Samuel Butle

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike

I have enjoyed greatly the second bloomingsuddenly you find - At the age of 50, say - That a whole new life has opened before you.

Agatha Christie

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

Ernest Holmes

Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman

Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Philip Howard

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

The cost of a thing 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

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.

Juvenal

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

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

I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucious

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Erich Fromm

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

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Martha Graham

In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

Fritjof Capra

Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.

Johann von Goethe

The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Charles Spurgeon

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe