Life Quotes

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Annie Besant

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Plato, Dialogues, Apology

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Albert Schweitze

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Oscar Wilde

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.

Euripides

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984

If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.

English prove

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudde

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

A different language is a different vision of life.

Federico Fellini

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

Phyllis McGinley

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.

Fitzgerald

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toome

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Dave Barry

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

T. S. Elliot

In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

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

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.

Sophocles

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

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, Julius Caesa