Life Quotes

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Dan Rathe

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Montesquieu

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.

Swordfish

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Samuel Johnson

All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.

Sri da Avabhas

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beeche

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Stanley Lindquist

Love is the life of humanity.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?

Edwin Markham

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

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

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.

Buddha

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Robert Browning

Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

John Sales

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivie

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...

Amelia Ba

Life is a lying dream, he only wake Who casts the World aside.

Seami Motokiyo

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.

Forest Witcraft

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan