Life Quotes

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Georges Bataille

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Moshe Arens

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

Fran Lebowitz

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson, baseball playe

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Cicero

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.

Ecclesiastes

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

Wayne W Dye

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Henry David Thoreau

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

William Shakespeare

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

Al Capp

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann von Goethe

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Clifton Fadiman

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

David McCullough

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beeche

For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.

Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame

We cannot control the evil tongues of others but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elde

An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.

Harold Loukes

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

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

Montesquieu

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - In firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Seneca

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spence

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

Detronius Arbite

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Arthur Schopenhaue

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Andre Malraux

May you live every day of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gel

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

Rabindranath Tagore

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.

Arthur Rubinstein

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Albert Camus

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley