Life Quotes
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment... both of individuals and of humanity.Alfred Adle
Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.Gaius Julius Caesa
Life is just one damned thing after another.Elbert Hubbard
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.Mary Hemingway
What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.Robert Green Ingersoll
Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
The artist has one function - - To affirm and glorify life.W. Edward Brown
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.D. Elton Trueblood
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.Ann Landers
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.Albert Einstein
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.Plato
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.Mahatma Gandhi
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.Erich Fromm
If you seek yourself,... you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjld
