Life Quotes
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?Madame de Maintenon
Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.Robert Frost
Life is too important to be taken seriously.Oscar Wilde
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.John Barrymore
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.Gloria Swanson
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.Clarence Darrow
Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.Swami Sivanada
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.Andre Malraux
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.Erich Fromm
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
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.Carolyn Heilbrun
Life is action and passion therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.Thich Nhat Hanh
Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.
At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.Dame Rose Macaulay
We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)
To affect the quality of the day that is the art of life.Henry David Thoreau
Make your life a mission - Not an intermission.Arnold Glasgow
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.W. E. B. Du Bois, last message to the world, 1957
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.Tieck
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.Rodney Yee
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.Abigail Adams, letter to her sister, Mary Smith Cranch, 1784
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.George Santayana
That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.Paul Tournie
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
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - They have preservatives.Calvin Trillin
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.George Bernard Shaw
Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.W. E. B. Du Bois
