Life Quotes

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toome

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

There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

Miyamoto Musashi

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Unknown

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003

All you touch and all you see, is all your life will ever be.

Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?

Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?

It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.

W. Edwards Deming

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

David Russell

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak

We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

US Declaration of Independence

Life without music would be a mistake.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

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

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Leonard Bernstein

There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.

Robert Lynd

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Jean Paul Richte

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Osho, The art of Dying

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

Damon Runyon

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

Ivy Baker Priest

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

James F. Byrnes

Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.

Old School

With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.

James Dean

It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

Vida D. Scudde

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

Susan Sontag

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Edward Telle

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time