Life Quotes

Plato - we can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark;...
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.
Sallust
Ronald reagan - nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot...
William james - the great use of life is to spend it for...
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thomas H. Huxley
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.
Euripides
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian Andreas
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Boris Pasternak
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
Sherwood Anderson
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Oscar Wilde, A Picture of Dorian Grey
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912
A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.
Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Kelle
Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.
Kelle
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.
John Ruskin
Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
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
Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.
Jack Holland
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.
Unknown
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Grace Paley
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Rabindranath Tagore
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)
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Laurence Sterne
What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Life is too short for a long story.
Mary Wortley Montagu
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthime
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare