Life Quotes

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
Laura Swenson
Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
Henry ward beeche - we sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and...
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Elizabeth II
As soon as there is life there is danger.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreine
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance, Act 3
Graffito - is there life before death....
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
Graham Greene
Allen ginsberg - because systems of mass communication can...
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
General Omar Bradley
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
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
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
David Grayson
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
Johann von Goethe
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
Richard Milhous Nixon
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
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.
Philip Skelton
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
Albert Camus
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King
Life is a promise fulfill it.
Mother Theresa
There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.
Eric Hoffe
It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.
Joseph Addison
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this decide what you want.
Ben Stein
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.
Samuel Johnson
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.
Jean Paul Richte
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.
John A. Rassias