Life Quotes

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffe

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Sir Francis Bacon

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs

Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Arabian Prove

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you arent really living without it.

Real Live Preache

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change

I love life because what more is there.

Anthony Hopkins

He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.

Apuleius

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Lewis Grizzard

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - The moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

Leo Tolstoy

Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.

Rene Angelil

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Charles Knight

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russell

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Jesus