Life Quotes
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.Micron
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.Samuel Butle
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.Andy Warhol
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.Horace Walpole
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.Herbert W. Boyer, co - Founder of Genentech, Inc.
A well - Tied tie is the first serious step in life.Oscar Wilde
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.Robert Lynd
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.Henry David Thoreau
Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.Luella F. Phean
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.Anais Nin
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.Woody Allen
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.Meister Eckhart
I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.Dave Barry
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.Terry Josephson
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.Harold Loukes
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.The Talmud
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.Reverend Edward A. Malloy
Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.Bette Davis
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id 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
