Life Quotes

Herman melville - there are certain queer times and occasions in...
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
Josh Billings
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson
Bertrand russell - real life is, to most men, a long second - best,...
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
Life is short; live it up.
Khrushchev
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.
Akhenaton
Live a life as a monument to your soul.
Ayn Rand
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
There are three intolerable things in life - Cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women.
Orson Welles
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Friedrich Nietzche
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.
Reginald Blyth
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
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DOE Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles slowly at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead.
Woody Allen, Without Feathers
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Virgil
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
Martin Luthe
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
Michael Landon
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 to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Saint Augustine
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.
Arnold Glasgow
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg