Life Quotes
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.Stephen King
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.Booker T. Washington
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.Herb Caen
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.Dr. Smiley Blanton
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.Anonymous
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.Seneca
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 painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.Jackie Robinson, baseball playe
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
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
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.Michael Landon
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.Vernon Howard
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.Kwan - Tzu
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.Annie Besant
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Abbie M. Dale
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoi
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.Mary Beth Danielson
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.American Greetings Card
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.Leo Buscaglia
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
What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.Pedro Calderon de la Barca
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.Richard Burton
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.Malcolm Boyd
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.Henri Estienne
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.Anthony Burgess
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
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
