Life Quotes

No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.

J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".

I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.

Omar Khayym

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.

George Eliot, Romola, 1863

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

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Cynthia Ozick, O Magazine, September 2002

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

Whenever I start getting sad about where I am in my life, I think about the last words of my favorite uncle A truck.

Child Age 15

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.

Laurie E. Colwin

Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.

Amelia Earhart Putnam

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. - From Live Without Principle.

Henry David Thoreau

Music is essentially useless, as life is but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of life become publishers.

Cyril Connolly

The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

Sallust

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Dave Barry

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel

A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

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

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.

Mary Hemingway

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.

Albert Einstein

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

Hendrik W. Van Loon