Life Quotes

Michael landon - sometimes i wonder if we live life by reliving...
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Booker t. washington - success is to be measured not so much by the...
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheeve
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.
Meryl Streep
To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.
The Best of the Best (motion picture)
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast - Table", 1872
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley Warne
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.
Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
Just as the sand - Dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
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
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
John Steinbeck, East of Eden
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
H. L. Mencken
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.
Richard Milhous Nixon
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry Stimson
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.
Jean Anouilh
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.
Isaac Rosenfeld
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Albert Camus
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
T. S. Elliot
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
Erich Fromm
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hoope
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine