Life Quotes

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

Unknown

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

Helen Kelle

Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Akhenaton

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

James Taylo

Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.

Sren Aaby Kierkegaard

One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

Roosevelt, Eleano

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Alice Walke

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Tom Stoppard

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Henry David Thoreau

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

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

Karen Horney

Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.

Adele Brookman

Music, verily, is the mediator between intellectual and sensuous life... the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Ludwig van Beethoven

However mean your life is, meet it and live it do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

Henry David Thoreau

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Barth

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.

William Lyon Phelps

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.

Zora Neale Hurston

Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary monetary matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.

William Cobbett

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

A well - Developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

William Arthur Ward

Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.

The Dhammapada

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

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.

Florida Scott - Maxwell, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

Richard Bach

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Aristotle