Life Quotes

Thomas jefferson - we hold these truths to be self - evident, that...
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
Death hath so many doors to let out life.
John Fletcher, The Custom of the Country (1647)
Thomas carlyle - the man without a purpose is like a ship without...
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
It? s never too late?? in fiction or in life?? to revise.
Nancy Thaye
A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.
Francis Bacon
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
William James
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Unknown
It is the simple things in life that make living worthwhile - Sweet fundamental things such as love.
Laura Ingalls Wilde
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
"Swampman" on Quartz
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
John A. Rassias
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.
Ben Stein
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.
Flora Colao
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
I must say the biggest lesson you can learn in life, or teach your children, is that life is not castles in the skies, happily ever after. The biggest lesson we have to give our children is truth.
Goldie Hawn
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke
A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.
Jawaherlal Nehru
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Thomas Peters
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
One only needs two tools in life WD - 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
G. Weilache