Life Quotes
Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.Robert Doisneau
I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.Germaine Gree
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Benjamin Disraeli
Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.Kalidasa
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.John Macy
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.Phillips Brooks
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
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
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.George Will
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard affair.Richard Guggenheime
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.Kahlil Gibran
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
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)
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.Alfred North Whitehead
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoi
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.Michael R. Bae
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
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
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.Henry David Thoreau
