Life Quotes

Peter de vries - life is a zoo in a jungle....
James m. barrie - i know not, sir, whether bacon wrote the works of...
Measure your life in love.
Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radne
This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.
Seneca
Jane wagne - all my life i wanted to be someone i guess i...
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
Raymond Holliwell
Words have a longer life than deeds.
Pindar, Nemean Odes
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richte
Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.
American Greetings Card
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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".
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.
Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.
Arthur Helps
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preache
Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Kahlil Gibran
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
Muriel Spark
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
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.
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.
Sun Bea
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan