Life Quotes

Quoted by benjamin franklin, pearls of wisdom, by jerome agel and walter d. glanze - a long life may not be good enough, but a good...
Laurens van der post - life begins as a quest of the child for the man...
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde
Hope is only the love of life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas carlyle - a well written life is almost as rare as a well...
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
Iggy Pop
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuh
Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having.
Juvenal
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
Kwan - Tzu
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Robyn Davidson
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann von Goethe
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.
Author Unknown
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
William Cobbett
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.
Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
La Bruyere
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitze
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron, Don Juan
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
Raymond Holliwell
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca
Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.
MG Siriam
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
Joseph Addison
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - To be got over.
Arthur Schopenhaue
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Jonathan Larson
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon, Imagine
Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.
George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Pope John Paul II
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776