Life Quotes

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow

The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Secret of the Bulls (Simon & Schuster, 1996

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough You must take action.

Anthony Robbins

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.

Arnold Glasgow

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

William James

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

A. Edward Newton

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.

Anthony Robbins

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pinda

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

Julia T. Alvarez

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Anais Nin

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

Irving

Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

I honestly believe that in my lifetime we will see a country once again governed by Christians... and Christian values. What Christians have got to do is take back this country, one precinct at a time, one neighborhood at a time, and one state at a time.

Ralph Reed, Executive Director, the Christian Coalition

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.

Patrick Henry

Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

Thomas Mann

The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffe

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.

Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Ernest Hemingway

Custom is the great guide of human life.

David Hume

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

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

As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Charles De Gaulle

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

Seneca

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Ralph W. Sockman

Life is consciousness.

Emmet Fox

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

Burton Hills