Life Quotes

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.

Sir Thomas Browne

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pinda

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

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

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

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

When we hold back on life, life holds us back.

Mary Manin Boggs

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffe

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

Haniel Long

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Unknown

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Jean Ke

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Edward Telle

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

William Faulkne

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Friedrich Nietzche

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.

Buddha

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

H. G. Wells

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.

Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Aristotle

A well - written life is almost as rare as a well - Spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Ben Stein

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne