Life Quotes

A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
Calvin Coolidge
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forste
We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead
Thomas browne - where life is more terrible than death, it is...
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Henry m. wriston - those who misrepresent the normal experiences of...
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Barrie
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Quoting Churchill.
Ronald Reagan
Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
John Donne
We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death. on atomic energy.
Albert Einstein
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham
True love never dies for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just pushes away.
Alicia Barnhart
I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.
Margery Cuyle
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.
Marlin Finch Lupus
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Unknown
The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Mark Twain
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
Richard Burton
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
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19
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
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
John Sturart Mill, Defence of Hedonism
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.
Quentin Crisp
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Browne
People find life entirely too time - Consuming.
Stanislaw J. Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts".
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson, Jr.
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
Deepak Chopra
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991