Life Quotes

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.

Kathleen Norris

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Joe Bob Briggs

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.

Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Pearl S. Buck

The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being.

Richard Milhous Nixon

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

George Barrell Cheeve

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry Stimson

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

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

Bertolt Brecht

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Learned Hand

The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

Stella Adle

If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.

Leo Tolstoy

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

Dorothy Day

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

Danny Kaye

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.

Gustave Flaubert

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!

Patrick Henry

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli