Life Quotes
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.Booker T. Washington
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.Benjamin Franklin
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.Abraham Kuype
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.Aristotle
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!Friedrich Nietzsche
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
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 Beauvoi
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.Sydney Smith
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Poet at the Breakfast - Table", 1872
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.Benjamin Disraeli
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.Kahlil Gibran
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.Langston Hughes
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.Socrates
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.Mark Twain
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina, of Sweden, 1629 - 1689
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
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.Norman MacEwan
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.Muriel Spark
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.Ellen Glasgow
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.Whittaker Chambers
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.John Updike
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.William Faulkne
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.W. Somerset Maugham
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.Aristotle
