Life Quotes

Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray - sin is the only real colour element left in...
Mary manin boggs - when we hold back on life, life holds us back....
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Bruce kempe - age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do...
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
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.
Robert A. Heinlein
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.
Koran
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".
Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Bertrand Russell
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Cherokee Prove
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Virgil
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Maitri Upanishads
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.
Osho, The art of Dying
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it? three minutes; to collect the data in it? all my life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke