Life Quotes

There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.

Marcel Proust

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Samuel Smiles

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

William Shakespeare

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

Rodney Yee

I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.

Mary S. Calderone

A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.

David Grayson

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

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

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

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace, Satires

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.

John Updike

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

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 lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

Seami Motokiyo

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.

Arthur Schopenhaue

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.

David Letterman

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

Thomas Carlyle

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

Henry David Thoreau

Science is the only true guide in life.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

G. H. Hardy

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

Henry James

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

There isn? t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren? t really living without it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, August 27, 2003

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