Life Quotes

Joan l. curcio - courageous risks are life - giving, they help you...
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
Muriel Spark
Tom masson - think of what would happen to us in america if...
Is there life before death.
Graffito
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.
William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.
Detronius Arbite
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Barrie
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
Sophocles - he who throws away a friend is as bad as he who...
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
Maxwell Maltz
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
Robert Lynd
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
William Lyon Phelps
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Author Unknown
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
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
Seneca
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Swami Sivanada
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Germaine Gree
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.
Abraham J. Herschel
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Amelia Bu
The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara De Angelis
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
Leo Tolstoy
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
Charles Knight
I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
Alan Woods
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
Alfred Tennyson
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Laurens Van der Post
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.
Mark Twain