Life Quotes
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucious
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.Joseph Brodsky
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.John Milton
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.Saul David Alinsky
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.Rabbi Harold Kushne
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.William James
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. Johnson
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.Thomas Jefferson
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.The Divine Pymande
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.Pearl Buck
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.William Shakespeare
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - Your ideal of what you long to attain - The ideal of health, efficiency, success.Orison Swett Marden
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.Unknown
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.Basil W. Maturin
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.Alexandre Dumas, fils
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves...Chief Seattle
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Cherokee Prove
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.Hellen Kelle
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.Benjamin Disraeli
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well.Mary Cholmondeley
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.Maurice Maeterlinck
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
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.Arthur Schopenhaue
It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
