Life Quotes
As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes
When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profitable, and good which would hinder and clog our grand duties and our chief work, we shall understand more fully what life is worth, and how to make the most of it.Charles A. Stoddard
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.Muriel Spark
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)
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.Thomas Carlyle
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.David Russell
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.Benjamin H. Brewste
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.Sydney Smith
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?Margot Fonteyn
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Charles Robert Darwin
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.L. Ron Hubbard, Book: The Creation of Human Ability
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and 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
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.Woody Allen
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.William Lyon Phelps
In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.Henry Clay
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.A. P. Gouthey
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.Luke Rhinehart
The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.Sallust
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
A good book is the precious life - Blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.John Milton
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.Pierre Elliott Trudeau
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.George Bernard Shaw
If life deals you lemons, why not go kill someone with the lemons maybe by shoving them down his throat.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.Simone Weil
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.Laura Ingalls Wilde
Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne
