Life Quotes

William james - the stream of thought flows on but most of its...
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.
Simone Weil
Holly lisle, fire in the mist, 1992 - actions have consequences... first rule of life....
Mark twain, letter to mrs foote, dec. 2, 1887 - all you need in this life is ignorance and...
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.
Charles Dickens
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Rene Angelil
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Breme
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.
Chris Evert
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
George Bernard Shaw
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
Robin Norwood
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.
A. Bronson Alcott
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Mille
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
D. Elton Trueblood
Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Author Unknown
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
Benjamin Franklin
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
The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.
Phillips Brooks
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham J. Heschel
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, can see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.
Albert Einstein
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
Life is very important to Americans.
Bob Dole
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
The Divine Pymande
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
Saying we should keep the two - Party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
Eugene McCarthy
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz