Life Quotes

There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.

George Sand

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.

L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Quoted by Benjamin Franklin, Pearls of Wisdom, by Jerome Agel and Walter D. Glanze

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons maybe by shoving them down his throat.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Osho, The art of Dying

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.

Richard Simmons

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

James Barrie

This is our purpose to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

Nathan Hale

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

Samuel Johnson

Take life one basket at a time.

Jackie Wilson

Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Jay Leno

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

A man without trust is a man without life.

Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time

Life is a festival only to the wise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

John Burroughs

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.

Anonymous

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman.

Woody Allen

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

Albert Pike

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.

Francis Bacon

That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.

Marvin, _Life, the Universe, and Everything_ by Douglas Adams

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything.

Vincent Van Gogh

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.

Marie Curie