Life Quotes
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.The Best of the Best (motion picture)
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.Iggy Pop
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.The Talmud
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.Lucius Accius
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.George Santayana
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
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.Arthur Ashe
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.Edmund Spenser, 1590
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.George Eliot
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.Logan Pearsall Smith
Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.Michael Sinz
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.Dale Carnegie
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".
The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.Berenson
Life is a risk.Diane Von Furstenberg
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.Florence Shinn
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.Charles M. Schulz
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
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
People who keep journals have life twice.Jessamyn West
As soon as there is life there is danger.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
