Life Quotes
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life the one preserves, the other sweetens it.John Christian Bovee
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.Norman Douglas
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.Eleanor Roosevelt
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.Jeremy Taylo
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.Abbie M. Dale
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.William James
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.James F. Byrnes
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.Pearl Bailey
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.Homer, The Iliad
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.Colin Raye
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian
No man is truly great, who is great only in his life - Time. The test of greatness is the page of history.William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.George Eliot
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.James Barrie
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.Greek Prove
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.Norman Cousins
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.Danny Kaye
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.Albert Einstein
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.Ben Stein
