Life Quotes

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

What each must seek in his own life never was on land or sea. It is something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Joseph Campbell

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Maitri Upanishads

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Andrew Carnegie

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Steven Wright

One friend in a lifetime is much two are many three are hardly possible.

Henry Adams

Oregano is the spice of life.

Henry J. Tillman

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.

Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Peter McWilliams

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhaue

I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff... I just want to go through life thinking people are happy, naive as that may sound.

Andrew Schneide

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

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Henry James

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

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Bertolt Brecht

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

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

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

William James

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Joseph Addison

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Carol Burnett

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.

Marcus Garvey

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann