Life Quotes

Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.

Michael Johnson

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

Author Unknown

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

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

David Searls

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003

I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitze

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw

I have learned this at least by my experiment that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

The actual God of many Americans... is simply the current of American life.

C. H. Cooley

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.

John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

Karen Kaiser Clark

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Sir Francis Bacon

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehre

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Emily Dickinson

If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

Unknown

If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.

Eugene Peterson

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.

Johann von Goethe

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilde