Life Quotes

Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.

Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation

It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

Ernest Rutheford

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

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

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Sir Francis Bacon

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Brandon Lee

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Lerne

People find life entirely too time - Consuming.

Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

Seneca, Epistulae Morales

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

Anonymous

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Lynd

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.

Sophocles

In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.

Susanne Lange

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.

Abraham Kuype

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

Charles Feidelson, Jr.

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

George Bernard Shaw