Life Quotes
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
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.Jennifer Jones
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.Richard Leide
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.Lester Bangs
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.John Christian Bovee
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.Henry David Thoreau
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.James A. Pike
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.Herbert Spence
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
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.Robert Frost
Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.Joseph Brodsky
Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.Elizabeth Kubler - Ross
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
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
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.Benjamin H. Brewste
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.George Farquha
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.Arnold Bennett
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.Bill Watterson, cartoonist
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Cherokee Prove
Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
When a man comes to die, no matter what his talents and influence, and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and dying a cold horror. It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.John Steinbeck, East of Eden
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.Arnold Toynbee
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.Arthur Schopenhaue
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.Joseph Campbell
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?George Eliot
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life.Elizabeth Henry
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.Unknown
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.Vernon Howard
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
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.
