Life Quotes

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Henry David Thoreau

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

Alan Woods

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Berenson

History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.

Philip Skelton

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

Clare Booth Luce

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline.

Becky Alunan

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Benjamin Franklin

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Amelia Bu

Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Edward Morgan Forste

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

James Madison, Federalist 10

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Charles Caleb Colton

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

John Updike, Rabbit Redux

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

John Lennon

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

Dick Werthime

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Unknown

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it? three minutes; to collect the data in it? all my life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.

Albert Einstein

The whole life of man is but a point of time let us enjoy it.

Plutarch

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.

Eugene Kennedy

All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.

Jim Fiebig

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.

C. Wright Mills

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make yourself a happier and more productive person.

Dr. David M. Burns

If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate for it.

Lawana Blackwell

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo

The holy passion of Friendship is so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain