Life Quotes
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.Haniel Long
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.Simone Weil
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.Sophia Loren
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
For no phase of life, whether public or private, whether in business or in the home, whether one is working on what concerns oneself alone or dealing with another, can be without its moral duty; on the discharge of such duties depends all that is morally right, and on their neglect all that is morally wrong in life.Marcus Tullius Cicero, On Duties I
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.Walter Lippman
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.Charles Dickens
For any woman to success in American life she must first do two things Prepare herself for a profession, and marry a man who wants her to succeed as much as she does.Cathleen Douglas
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.Iggy Pop
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.Albert Schweitze
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!Bob Newhart
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
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
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.Dean Koontz, Watchers
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Albert Einstein
In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.Brian Tracy
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.Robert Lynd
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.Frank Gelett Burgess
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.Dr. Robert Schulle
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.John Updike
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.Maurice Maeterlinck
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.Epictetus
We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.Alan Chadwick
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.Kingsley Amis
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.Sir Winston Churchill
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
