Life Quotes
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
While we are postponing, life speeds by.Seneca
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.Edward B. Butle
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Arbie M. Dale
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.Adele Brookman
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.John Christian Bovee
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.Mary Catherine Bateson
Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.Anatole France
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away. - Hercules Furens.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape
As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.Charles De Gaulle
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.Cicero
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.Ivy Baker Priest
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.James Joseph Sylveste
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.Henry Ward Beeche
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
The unexamined life is not worth living.Socrates
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo Da Vinci
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.Henry Van Dyke
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
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.Robin Norwood
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.A. Mark Wells
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.Alcaeus
