Life Quotes

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Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard Byrd
To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
George Woodberry
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.
Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.
Carl Jung
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Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.
Clyde Kluckhohn
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.
Buddha
Life without music would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one; Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Douglas Adams
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butle
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
Cicero
I have no life, just e - Mail.
Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert Humphrey
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.
Sidney Madwed
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
G. Hoppe
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933)
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.
Lou Reed
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous