Life Quotes

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.

Elizabeth II

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russell

True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.

Alicia Barnhart

Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.

Henri Frdric Amiel

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

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

Christopher Morley

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell, Autobiography

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.

Meryl Streep

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

Damon Runyon

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare, "King John", Act 3 scene 4

Life without music would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Heywood

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefelle

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton John Sheen

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959

Plunge boldly into the thick of life.

Johann von Goethe

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Loren Eiseley

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

James Barrie