Life Quotes

Dame rose macaulay - at the worst, a house unkept cannot be so...
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?
Richard Bach, One
Charles caleb colton - happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies...
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Lorime
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
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
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitze
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
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
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
Live your own life, for you will die your own death.
Latin Prove
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham J. Heschel
Bank on a life, saving towards the certainty of change Ledger all the happiness, pencil in to rearrange Withdraw all the worry Deposit all the faith Compound all the experience and Recognize when the payment is late.
Unknown
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.
Albert Einstein
While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead... While you do not know life, how can you know about death.
Confucius
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
Forest Witcraft
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Gordon William Allport
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.
Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
Colin Raye
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Julia T. Alvarez
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Benjamin Disraeli
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe