Life Quotes
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.Randolph Bourne
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.William Shakespeare
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.J. M. Barrie
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?Woody Allen
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.Harriet Lerne
Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.George Bernard Shaw
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.Virgil
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.Walt Whitman
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.Abraham J. Herschel
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.Martin Luthe
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
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - - Loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
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
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.Martha Stewart
There are two sorts of curiosity - - The momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.Robert Lynd
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.Nancy Asto
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.Orison Swett Marden
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.Mary Manin Boggs
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.Erma Bombeck
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.Mohandas Ghandi
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.Christopher Morley
Experience a comb life gives you after you lose your hair.Judith Stern
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.Author Unknown
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.Unknown
Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.Isaac Rosenfeld
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.Samuel Johnson
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Sir Thomas Brown
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - Not to have run away.Dag Hammarskjold
