Life Quotes
Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.Stephen Vincent Benet
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.Marcus Garvey
False enchantment can last a lifetime.W. H. Auden
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
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.Albert Einstein
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.Edward Telle
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We learn not in the school, but in life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.Peter McWilliams
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
Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.Judith Stern
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.Jacob Bigelow
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.Emil Brunne
Education is life itself.John Dewey
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.Voltaire
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.Aristotle
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.Socrates
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
God, I dont 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 Preache
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
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
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.Samuel Smiles
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.Michael Landon
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.Thomas Carlyle
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
