Life Quotes

Kahlil gibran - cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy...
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
Yiddish prove - small children disturb your sleep, big children...
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.
Roger Banniste
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
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
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Charles Dickens
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
Shakti Gawain
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.
George Barrell Cheeve
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Marilyn Ferguson
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Henry David Thoreau
Life goes on within you and without you.
George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
Johnson
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
Buddha
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Newman
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4
We hold these truths to be self - Evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments a.
Thomas Jefferson
A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
Cicero