Life Quotes
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
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, Julius Caesa
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?Madame de Maintenon
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.Longfellow
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.Unknown
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Abbie M. Dale
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.Swordfish
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.Edward Telle
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.Sun Tzu
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.Yann Martel, Life of Pi
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.Ludwig van Beethoven
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.Mary Manin Morrissey
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.Johann von Goethe
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.George Barrell Cheeve
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.Phillips Brooks
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.Smiley Blanton
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.Henry David Thoreau
One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.Henry Adams
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
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. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.Dr. David M. Burns
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.Johann von Goethe
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.H. P. Lovecraft
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
The secret to life is that there is no secret."Swampman" on Quartz
