Life Quotes

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Mille

I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

Peter Coope

Life is a progress, and not a station.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

Plunge boldly into the thick of life.

Johann von Goethe

We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Speech to the graduating class at Harvard (1978)

You can not gain peace by avoiding life.

Virginia Woolf

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.

Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

Unknown

I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.

Hellen Kelle

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Thomas Browne

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime. On assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Earl Warren

There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force... If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war.

Martin Luther King Jr., The Christmas Sermon On Peace in on Dec 24, 1967

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts.

John Keats, Letter to Benjamin Bailey, Nov 1817

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - So I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.

M. Cartmill

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Albert Schweitze

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified.

Carl Van Vechten

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

Charles Lindberg

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.

Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.

Henry M. Wriston

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Latin Prove

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.

Anthony Burgess