Life Quotes
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.US Declaration of Independence
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.Plutarch
In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.Alfred A. Montapert
There is no wealth but life.John Ruskin
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
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.Fritjof Capra
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.Leo Buscaglia
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.Alan John Percivale Taylo
If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.Richard Hofstadte
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.James Allen
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.Amelia Earhart
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.Henry David Thoreau
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.Lewis Carroll
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.Bible
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.Gustave Flaubert
Life is consciousness.Emmet Fox
Life is unbearable, but death is not so pleasant either.Assyrian Prove
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.Henri Bergson
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.Don DeLillo
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.Heywood
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.W. Edwards Deming
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.Oscar Wilde
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.Unknown
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.Charles Dickens
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.Charles M. Schwa
