Life Quotes

Agnes de mille - no trumpets sound when the important decisions of...
Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
Richard Bach
William james - the stream of thought flows on but most of its...
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Grace Paley
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
Alicia Barnhart
American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.
James Harvey Robinson
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill
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
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
Katherine D. Ortega
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
I have no life, just e - Mail.
Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Henry James
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
Rabbi Harold Kushne
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
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.
Dr. David M. Burns
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.
Vijay Krishna
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.
Alfred Tennyson
I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.
Susan Sontag
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
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
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".