Life Quotes

Jackie mason - i have enough money to last me the rest of my...
Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway
Ellen stugis hoope - i slept and dreamed that life was beauty. i awoke...
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
George Bernard Shaw
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.
Fritjof Capra
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
Erich fromm - there is no meaning to life except the meaning...
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.
Cyril Connolly
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Mary S. Calderone
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Norman MacEwan
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis, One Fat Englishman (1963)
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.
Native American Prove
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
La Rochefoucauld
Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.
Robert Doisneau
The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara De Angelis
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - This is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
Sir Walter Scott
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.
Lester Bangs
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.
T. S. Eliot
The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - Such a man may be reckoned a complete man.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mohandas Ghandi
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Seneca, Epistulae Morales
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
James Barrie
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott