Life Quotes

Jim davis - there are so many opportunities in life, that the...
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
John Updike
Samuel smiles - practical wisdom is only to be learned in the...
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
Laurence J. Pete
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.
Jane E. Brody
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.
Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation
James madison, federalist 10 - liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an...
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
M. Cartmill
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Bible
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.
Mavette Sadile
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
Amelia Earhart
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
Joachim du Bellay
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
Yukio Mishima
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Geoffrey F. Abert
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
John Milton
There isnt 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 arent really living without it.
Real Live Preache
All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Ernest Rutheford
The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.
R. A. Salvatore, The Crystal Shard
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
James Joseph Sylveste
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Most people go on living their everyday life half frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi - Comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.
Albert Einstein