Life Quotes
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.Henry Van Dyke
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick Henry
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.Adrienne E. Gusoff
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.Albert Einstein
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.Albert Einstein
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.Marie Curie
Just as the sand - Dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucious
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.Rebecca West
A Muslim who meets with others and shares their burdens is better than one who lives a life of seclusion and contemplation.Prophet Mohammed, Muslim
The unexamined life is not worth living.Socrates
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.Robert Browning
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.W. R. Inge
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II".
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.Richard Milhous Nixon
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
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.Rainer Maria Rilke
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.Orison Swett Marden
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.Robert Frost
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
Love is the very essence of life.Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside yourself.Jacob Bigelow
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau
Life is a dead - End street.Henry Louis Mencken
