Life Quotes

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To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Benjamin Franklin
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
Samuel Johnson
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
Maurice Maeterlinck
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
The difficulty in life is the choice.
George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV
When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.
Douglas Lurtan
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butle
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Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Darlington Morley
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.
Henry Adams
It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
Alexandre Dumas, fils
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul David Alinsky
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
Celebrations are the juice of life.
John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
Unknown
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
Barbara DeAngelis
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.
Mark Twain
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan