Life Quotes
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.Henry Havelock Ellis
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.Jules Renard
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
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.Frank Moore Colby
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.Philip Howard
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.Roger Banniste
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.Mark Twain
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.Mary Catherine Bateson
As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.Charles De Gaulle
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.Richard Bach
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.Oscar Wilde
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.Kahlil Gibran
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.Margaret Mead
Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.Richard I. Winword
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.Christiane Northrup, M. D.
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.Cyril Connolly
If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.Reginald Blyth
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.Elizabeth Bowen
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.Erica Jong
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.Robert Byrne
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Robert Darwin
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.Arthur Schopenhaue
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.Pearl Buck
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.Kahlil Gibran
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.Swami Sivanada
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
