Life Quotes

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Thomas Jefferson

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

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

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.

Calvin Trillin

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

Jennifer Jones

As a well - Spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Leonardo Da Vinci

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.

Loren Eiseley

Science is the only true guide in life.

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

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

Vince Lombardi

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus.

Albert Camus

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Marcus Aurelius

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Benjamin Johnson

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

D. H. Lawrence

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Chief Seattle

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.

Juvenal

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Christiane Northrup, M. D.

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Johann Von Schille

It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.

Laura Ingalls Wilde

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

Adlai E. Stevenson, J

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

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

Norman Cousins

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy