Life Quotes

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Kahlil Gibran

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead?... While you do not know life, how can you know about death?

Confucius, The Confucian Analects, bk. 11: 11

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

Horace Walpole

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Joe Bob Briggs

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.

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