Life Quotes
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".
When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.Geoffrey F. Abert
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.Karl Kraus
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.Andre Gide
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.Clarence Darrow
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
Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.Charles M. Schulz
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.John Milton
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.Unknown
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
I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.Albert Einstein
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.Alfred Korzybski
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.Fran Lebowitz
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.Katharine Butler Hathaway
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.William Faulkne
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.John Burroughs
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.Erich Fromm
Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.William Faulkne
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?Madame de Maintenon
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.Benjamin Disraeli
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the preface
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.Erica Jong
The mystery of life isn? t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.Frank Herbert, Dune (Reverend Mother Mohiam)
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.Hellen Kelle
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity.Marcus Tullius Cicero
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
