Life Quotes
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
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
Where there is love there is life.Mahatma Gandhi
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.Buddha
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.Jose Ortega y Gasset
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.Real Live Preache
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.Jean Ke
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.John Updike, Rabbit Redux
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.Unknown
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?Unknown
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.William James
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.Unknown
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Ann Landers
Take life one basket at a time.Jackie Wilson
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.Nelson Henderson
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.Arthur Ashe
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.Vincent Van Gogh
This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.Oswald Spengle
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
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
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.Oscar Wilde
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.Bertrand Russell
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.Ben Stein
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.Wilson Mizne
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
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
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.Unknown
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.Don Miguel Ruiz
The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.Charles Schwa
succes is quest that will take me a life time to for fill but it is worth the wait.Teddy Carroll
It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine - Tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.Michael Sherme
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.Kahlil Gibran
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John Harold
