Life Quotes

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Tennessee Williams

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.

Jules Renard

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny.

Johann von Goethe

Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Chauncey Depew

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

George Farquha

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

Arthur Schopenhaue

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Saint Francis of Assisi

Is there life before death?

Graffito, in Belfast

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence then success is sure.

Mark Twain

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

Aristotle

What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.

Iggy Pop

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

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Angelina Jolie

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Gree

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

All that counts in life is intention.

Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau