Life Quotes

Henry david thoreau - to be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle...
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Danish prove - life without a friend is death without a witness....
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek Prove
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.
Adrienne E. Gusoff
The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop.
Edwin Conklin
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.
Susanne Lange
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehre
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
Steven weinberg - the effort to understand the universe is one of...
There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
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
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding and that there is always tomorrow.
Dorothy Thompson
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Life is all one piece. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home. For achievement without love is a cold and tight - Lipped murderer of human happiness everywhere.
Smiley Blanton
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
Wailing and lamentation befit those who stand before the throne of life and depart without leaving in its hands a drop of the sweat of their brows or the blood of their hearts.
Kahlil Gibran
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus.
Albert Camus
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.
Susan Polis Schutz
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feathe
Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.
Sidney Madwed
The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.
Plutarch
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
Karl Kraus
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.
Woody Allen
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.
H Hahn Blavatsky
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.
Buddha
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
Cicero
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
Albert Einstein
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes
Life - The way it really is - Is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
Joseph Brodsky
War is a matter of vital importance to the State; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.
Sun Tzu