Life Quotes
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.Erica Jong
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.Elizabeth Goudge
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.Unknown
You wake up in the morning, and your purse is magically filled with twenty - Four hours of unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions. No one can take it from you. And no one receives either more or less than you receive.Thomas Arnold Bennett
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.Norman Douglas
Life is made up of marble and mud.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.Sir Francis Bacon
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
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
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.Katherine Hepburn
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.Harriet Lerne
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.Marcus Aurelius
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.Edward Morgan Forste
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
There is more to life than increasing its speed.Mahatma Gandhi
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.Mary Manin Boggs
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.Jack London, The Call of the Wild
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.Eleanor Marx
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x y is play and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.Charles A. Stoddard
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.Fred Allen
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.Francis Bacon
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.Anonymous
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.Christopher Morley
