Life Quotes
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As was his language so was his life.Seneca
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible And indescribably as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star - Dust caught, A segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.Henry David Thoreau
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.Carol Burnett
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.John Updike
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.Arthur Schopenhaue
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole
Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.Lou Reed
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.The Lockhorns
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.Edwin Whipple
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".
I love life because what more is there.Anthony Hopkins
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.Latin
There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.Henry James
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.The Talmud
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.Ludwig van Beethoven
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
Patriotism is not a short outburst of emotion, but is the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.Joshua J. Marine
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
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given nor how much have you won, but how much have you done not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.Nathan C. Schaeffe
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.Sydney Smith
That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test.... Peace comes through hope.James E. Faust
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic - Latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.Johann von Goethe
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.Frank Lloyd Wright
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
