Life Quotes
Life, at best, is completely unpredictable.Chrisopher Walken
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.Agatha Christie
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.Albert Camus
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.Maya Angelou
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.Margot Fonteyn
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.George Eliot
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.Unknown
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.Blaise Pascal
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.Buddha
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.Jeseph Joubert
One only needs two tools in life: WD - 40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.G. Weilache
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.Johann von Goethe
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.Robert Frost
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.John Lennon
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.Johnson
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.Oscar Wilde, "The Remarkable Rocket".
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.Joshua J. Marine
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.Bob Newhart
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.Kahlil Gibran
