Life Quotes

Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - But it returneth.

Percy B. Shelley

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

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, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

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

Dan Rathe

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Joe Bob Briggs

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

I have 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

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.

Unknown

Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.

Juvenal

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003

It is not doing the things we like to do, But liking the things we have to do That makes life blessed.

Unknown

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Sir Theodore Martin

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehre

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Alan Stewart Paton

Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

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Old School

Whose life is it anyway.

Brian Clark

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

Unknown

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

John Lennon

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

Robert Lynd

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining - Car worker... If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.

Patricia Roberts Harris

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White