Life Quotes

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.

Sherwood Anderson

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

James Truslow Adams

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine De Saint - Exupery

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.

Unknown

The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.

W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.

Dean Koontz, Watchers

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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 not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

Stephen Vincent Benet

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Blaise Pascal

Life must be lived as play.

Plato

Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Joseph Brodsky

Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.

Marcel Ayme

Life is a dead - End street.

Henry Louis Mencken

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James Barrie

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gel

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.

Arthur Schopenhaue

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.

Austin Farra

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

Marcel Proust