Life Quotes

Pedro calderon de la barca - what is life an illusion, a shadow, a story, and...
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
Elizabeth Bowen
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
Calvin Coolidge
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.
Alfred Austin
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.
Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
Charles augustus lindbergh, jr. - it was a love of the air and sky and flying, the...
Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Monroe Schultz
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
Death is a veil which those who live call life, Sleep and it is lifted.
Percy B. Shelley
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life.
Meryl Streep
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
Henry David Thoreau
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunne
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Ernest Hemingway
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.
Clyde Kluckhohn
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.
William O. Douglas
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fea
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. 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 Hammarskjold
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires (early book)
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.
Longfellow
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Elizabeth Goudge
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.
Katherine Mansfield
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
Nicholas Murray Butle
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.
John Barrymore
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
Laurens Van der Post
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Clarence Darrow
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
Kenny Ausubel
There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis