Life Quotes
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.Kin Hubbard
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
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.Bette Davis
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
How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.David Grayson
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.Buddha
It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.Emiliano Zapata
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dost thou love life? Than do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.Benjamin Franklin
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
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
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.Rita Mae Brown
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.Aldous Huxley
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
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.Johnny Carson
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.Bill Watterson, cartoonist
What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.Ryszard Kapuscinski
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.Real Live Preache
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.Bertrand Russell
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.George Santayana
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Plato, Dialogues, Apology
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go - Go Boots" (personal essay)
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.Albert Einstein
The goal of all life is death.Sigmund Freud
Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions.Russell G. Alexande
He alone is wise who can accommodate himself to all contingencies of life; but the fool contends, and struggling, like a swimmer, against the stream.Latin
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.Don DeLillo
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.Chauncey Depew
