Life Quotes
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.James M. Barrie
God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.Alcoholics Anonymous Praye
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.Isaac Rosenfeld
A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.Euripedes, Medea
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, The Confucian Analects
Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.Charles Monroe Schultz
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.Sun Bea
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life That word is love.Sophocles
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.Sun Tzu
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.Charles Scribner, Jr.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
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
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Gagehot
Life in abundance comes only through great love.Elbert Hubbard
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.Michelangelo Buonarroti
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.Unknown
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
One path alone leads to a life of peace The path of virtue.Juvenal
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.Burton Hills
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.Andrew Brown
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...Amelia Ba
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.Ralph W. Sockman
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The secret to life is that there is no secret."Swampman" on Quartz
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...Thomas Jefferson (The Declaration of Independence)
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.Edward Bulwer - Lytton
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.Joseph Addison
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Traditional Indian Saying
The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
