Life Quotes

Alice kahn - for a list of all the ways technology has failed...
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Thomas Carlyle
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel (1856)
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
Benjamin johnson - it is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make...
Ralph waldo emerson - make yourself necessary to somebody. do not make...
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.
Aristotle, Nicomachen Ethics (4th c. BC)
My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin.
Bill Watterson
Life is playfulness... we need to play so that we can rediscover the magical around us.
Flora Colao
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Albert Camus
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two different things.
Benjamin Franklin
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
Felix Adle
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
Carl Jung
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
Marcel Marceau
Life is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.
Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt, Book 2 of The Wheel of Time
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
Grace Speare
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.
Ashley Smith
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons maybe by shoving them down his throat.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?
Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
Albert Schweitze
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Hagar the Horrible
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
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
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.
A. Sachs
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.
H. S. Thompson
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
Norman Cousins