Life Quotes
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
Music is expression of harmony in sound. Love is the expression of harmony in life.Stephen
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti - Abortion forces what they want is control. Control over behavior power over women. Women in the anti - Choice movement want to share in male power over women, and do so by denying their own womanhood, their own rights and responsibilities.Ursula K. LeGuin
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.Laurie E. Colwin
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.Iris Murdoch
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.Aristotle
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.Sir Thomas Browne
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.Hugh Prathe
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably togethe.Clyde Kluckhohn
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.Anonymous
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.Edward Irving Koch
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Three things ruin a man power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.Harry S Truman
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.Charles Knight
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucious
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.Charles Caleb Colton
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.James Truslow Adams
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.Jose Ortega y Gasset
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
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.Eric Hoffe
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea And love is a thing that can never go wrong And I am Marie of Roumania.Dorothy Parke
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.Thomas Brackett Reed
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina
