Life Quotes
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.Josh Billings
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.Christopher Morley
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.Margot Fonteyn
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
Life goes on within you and without you.George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.Thomas Jefferson
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.George Santayana
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.Srully D. Blotnick
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.Mary Lyon
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.George Bernard Shaw
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.David McCullough
What I still ask for daily - For life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.Reynolds Price
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.Edith Hamilton
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
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
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.Elizabeth II
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.Newell Dwight Hillis
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.Meister Eckhart
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.Albert Schweitze
