Life Quotes

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye.

Thomas Jefferson

Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Longfellow

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.

Joachim du Bellay

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.

Eric Amble

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Greek Prove

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Switze

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Unknown

Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.

Baltasar Gracian

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Johann von Goethe

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.

John Lennon, Imagine

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.

Isaac Rosenfeld

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Emil Brunne

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

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

The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France