Life Quotes
Seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives rest of the heart.Hannah Whitall Smith
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.Samuel Smiles
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.Jean Paul Richte
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.William Hazlitt
I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie
The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.Grayson Kirk
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet - Scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal - - That is your success.Henry David Thoreau
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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)
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.Jawaharlal Nehru
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.Marcel Proust
There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.Carl Van Vechten
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.Wilhelm von Humboldt
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.Andrew Schneide
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.Brian Andreas
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.Plato
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.Ayn Rand
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.Francis Bacon
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.Booker T. Washington
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.Arthur Ashe
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles Kingsley
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.Eugene Delacroix
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.George Bernard Shaw
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Life must be lived as play.Plato
Life was made to be enjoyed as well as endured.Unknown
