Life Quotes
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura Kakuzo
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.Benjamin Franklin
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David Searls
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Sir Thomas Brown
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.Colin Raye
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.Woody Allen
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.Homer, The Iliad
Life is a tale told by an idiot - - Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.William Shakespeare
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.Michael J. Gel
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.Ursula K. LeGuin
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.Charles Peguy
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.John Sales
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.Margot Fonteyn
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.Assyrian Prove
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.Henry David Thoreau
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.Vivian Baxte
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.Henry James
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.Raoul Vaneigem
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
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?Edwin Markham
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.W. Somerset Maugham
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.Al Capp
That was and still is the great disaster of my life - That lovely, lovely little boy.Dwight D Eisenhowe
If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.Lawana Blackwell
Life... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.Helen Hayes
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.Confucius
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.Earl Nightingale
The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.Ben Stein
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
