Life Quotes

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

The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

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

You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.

Thomas Arnold Bennett

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

H. Jackson Browne

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Cicero

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

Leo Buscaglia

My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

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.

Booker T. Washington

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick - Sighted thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

Celebrations are the juice of life.

John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Author Unknown

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Elizabeth Goudge

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Berthald Auerbach

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life - Style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carve

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

Marcel Marceau

Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.

Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

Jack Holland

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

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.

Jules Renard

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein