Life Quotes

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Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Marilyn Ferguson
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.
Edith Wharton
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
Samuel Butle
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
Don Miguel Ruiz
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
Author Unknown
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
O, Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console To be understood as to understand To be loved as to love For it is in giving that we receive It is in pardoning that we are pardoned And it is in dying to ourselves that we are born to eternal life. Amen.
Saint Augustine
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Kahlil Gibran
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Chinese Prove
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.
Cathleen Douglas
I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katherine Hepburn
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
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Unknown
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson
It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.
Author Unknown
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
Dean Koontz, Watchers
If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Sivanada
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
John Macy
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
William Shakespeare
What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunne
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Peter Coope