Life Quotes

Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline.

Becky Alunan

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.

Norman Cousins

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

Sir Philip Sidney

Answer That you are here - - - That life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

Walt Whitman

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

Stewart B. Johnson

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Aeschylus

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivie

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

Virgil

The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau

It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the establishment and nothing more corrupting.

Alan John Percivale Taylo

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagne

In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

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 like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.

Margot Fonteyn

Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.

Muriel Spark

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.

Albert Einstein

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Pablo Picasso

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson