Life Quotes
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.Benjamin H. Brewste
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.Epictetus
Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha
Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.Joshua J. Marine
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.G. K. Chesterton
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.Albert Einstein
Few things in life are more embarrassing than the necessity of having to inform an old friend that you have just got engaged to his fiancee.W. C. Fields
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
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.Alexander A. Bogomoletz
In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, That is mine.Abraham Kuype
Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butle
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.Edith Wharton
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence - - And then success is sure.Mark Twain
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.Clement Stone
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach
Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.Rig Veda
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.Peter McWilliams
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.Jean - Paul Sartre
The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Natural History of Intellect (1893)
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
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.Swordfish
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.Jean Anouilh
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.Barry Schwartz
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.Karl Poppe
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.Henry David Thoreau
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
