Life Quotes
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.Jean Ke
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.Euripides
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.Lois McMaster Bujold
Life is a long lesson in humility.James M. Barrie
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.Gaius Julius Caesa
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert Highet
Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us little happiness The simple answer runs because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.Albert Einstein
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - It is one damn thing over and over.Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.Marie Curie
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.Maureen Hawkins
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.Thomas Jefferson
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.Overheard in Palo Alto...
Our brains are seventy - Year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.Hfiz
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.Benjamin Disraeli
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.Benjamin Disraeli
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.George Bernard Shaw
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.From the last episode of "Cheers".
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.Bill Watterson, cartoonist
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.Ben Stein
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong - - Because someday you will have been all of these.George Washington Carve
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.Ben Stein
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.Henri Estienne
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.Che
While we are postponing, life speeds by.Seneca
Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.Michael Landon
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".
