Life Quotes
Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.Wilson Mizne
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
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
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
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.Sherwood Anderson
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert H. Humphrey
The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.John F. Kennedy
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.Charles F. Kettering
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.Eleanor Marx
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.Johann von Goethe
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.Fritjof Capra
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.Dax Ward
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.Ben Stein
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
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 great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.Euripedes, Medea
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.A. Bronson Alcott
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.Woody Allen, Without Feathers
When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical may be madness. To surrender dreams, this may be madness. To seek treasures where there is only trash... Too much sanity may be madness, and maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel De Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
Wealth and children are the adornment of life.Koran
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.Raymond Holliwell
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.Frank Gelett Burgess
All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.Thomas Mann
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
