Life Quotes

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When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Traditional Indian Saying
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Che
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.
John Claypool
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
John Tyndall
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
Stephen leacock - i detest life - insurance agents; they always...
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
R. D. Laing
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Alfred Hitchcock
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.
Robert A. Heinlein
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
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.
Vincent Van Gogh
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.
Unknown
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Herbert Henry Asquith
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
Hilary Duff
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
Katherine D. Ortega
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
Johann von Goethe
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Ayn Rand
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)