Life Quotes

Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr. Thomas Dooley
Elizabeth henry - it is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep...
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
The goal of all life is death.
Sigmund Freud
Life is too short for traffic.
Dan Bellack
Lord byron, don juan - man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best...
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
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880) - our land is more valuable than your money. as...
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.
Alcaeus
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
La Bruyere
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel Johnson
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Maile
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
E. V. Lucas
The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
Life is too long not to be happy.
Thom Barbe
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
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marcel Marceau
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Mary Catherine Bateson
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.
Joseph Addison
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca
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
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
Author Unknown
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.
Irving
Celebrations are the juice of life.
John D. Hofbrauer, Jr.
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau