Life Quotes

David mamet - free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball...
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
William James
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.
Mary Catherine Bateson
William orville douglas - religious experiences which are as real as life...
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
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher Morley
Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.
Michael R. Bae
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.
Joel Patrick Warneke
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
Eugene Delacroix
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Life is a tragedy when seen in close - Up, but a comedy in long - Shot.
Charlie Chaplin
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.
Omar Khayym
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Smiley Blanton
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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
The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara De Angelis
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
Florence Shinn
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
George Lorime
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
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 in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Marie Curie
Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.
Henry James
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Author Unknown
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
Laura Ingalls Wilde
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.
Henry David Thoreau
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthime
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
Spider - Man
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
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
False enchantment can last a lifetime.
W. H. Auden