Life Quotes
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.Logan Pearsall Smith
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.Meryl Streep
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.Bertrand Russell
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.Unknown
Life without the courage for death is slavery.Seneca
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
Life... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.Helen Hayes
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.A. P. Gouthey
To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.M. C. Richards
In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.Brian Tracy
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.Josh Billings
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.Saint Francis of Assisi
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.Rusty Berkus
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.Benjamin Franklin
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.Francis Bacon
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
If you are planning for a year, sow rice if you are planning for a decade, plant trees if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.Chinese Prove
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.Charles M. Schulz
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
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?Cesare Pavese
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.Robert A. Heinlein
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.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
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.H. G. Wells
Very little is needed to make a happy life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.R. D. Laing
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.Arthur Rubinstein
