Life Quotes

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Isaac Bashevis Singe

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

Vida D. Scudde

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them through his deeds.

Hazrat Ali Ibn - E - Abi Talib, Nahj - Ul - Balagha (Sermons and sayings Compilation)

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

Kahlil Gibran

Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.

Bruce Lee

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Buddha

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.

Edith Wharton

The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

Johann von Goethe

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Jung

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

Spider - Man

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilde

A well - written life is almost as rare as a well - Spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Tom Masson

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Albert Camus

We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

Maxwell Maltz

There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.

Samuel Butle