Life Quotes
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.Gordon William Allport
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Abbie M. Dale
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.Robert Louis Stevenson
And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.Ralph Waldo Emerson
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.Langston Hughes
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.Stephen Leacock
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.William James
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.Hermann Hesse
Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.Charles Spurgeon
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
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)
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.Henry David Thoreau
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.Sir Theodore Martin
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.Albert Schweitze
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
Life is too short for a long story.Mary Wortley Montagu
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.Fulton John Sheen
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.Douglas Adams
It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you can make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost....Richard Bach
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Robert Darwin
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.Jean - Paul Sartre
