Life Quotes

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Alice Walke

All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

George Bernard Shaw

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovering that makes life worth the effort.

Vijay Krishna

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osle

To lengthen thy Life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.

Francis William Bourdillon

Everyone is in business for himself, for he is selling his services, labor or ideas. Until one realizes that this is true he will not take conscious charge of his life and will always be looking outside himself for guidance.

Sidney Madwed

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes the whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Herman Melville

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Nelson Henderson

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Kahlil Gibran

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian".

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Maile

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Bertrand Russell

Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Pindar, Nemean Odes

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, But rather that it shall never have a beginning.

John Henry Newman

The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.

Frances Willard

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

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Dr. Robert Schulle

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toome

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

There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

M. Scott Peck

I have no life, just e - Mail.

Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)

Dont go through life, GROW through life.

Eric Butterworth