Life Quotes

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.

Sir Thomas Browne

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Sri da Avabhas

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Earl Warren

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is consciousness.

Emmet Fox

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.

Plato

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

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 unexamined life is not worth living to a human.

Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".

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)

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism

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

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good - will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism.

James Harvey Robinson

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Carl Gustav Jung

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

Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.

Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.

Gloria Swanson

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Henry Van Dyke

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

Victor Hugo

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Anthony Burgess

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.

Leo Rosten

Just as the sand - Dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.

Spider - Man

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

Ecclesiastes

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Gaius Julius Caesa

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford