Life Quotes

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
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Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - - There, if one must speak out, the real man.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
Orison Swett Marden
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
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Montesquieu
Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Smiley Blanton
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.
John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
A well - Tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Oscar Wilde
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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
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 appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!
Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne
Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.
Child Age 15
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare Pavese
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
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
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.
Queen Christina
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.
Johann von Goethe
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - Not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
Alen Coren
Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsiblity and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.
Helen Merrell Lynd
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
William Orville Douglas
One should count each day a separate life.
Seneca
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Richard Bach
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
John Dean