Life Quotes

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

Native American Prove

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)

Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.

Unknown

A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

Francis Bacon

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.

Alcaeus

This is the true joy in life - - Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

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

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.

Ernestine Ulme

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Poppe

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

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Stewart B. Johnson

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

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

Jawaherlal Nehru