Life Quotes
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.Thomas Mann
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.William Orville Douglas
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.Henry David Thoreau
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.Victor Hugo
Life must be lived as play.Plato
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.William Shakespeare
And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents.Sir Arther Connan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.Clifton Fadiman
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master - Gardener of his soul, the director of his life.James Allen
Life is too long not to be happy.Thom Barbe
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.Bertrand Russell
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
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.Andre Malraux
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned Hand
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.Author Unknown
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.Unknown
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.Sir Winston Churchill
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.Don DeLillo
I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.John D. Rockefelle
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.Samuel Butle
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.Emiliano Zapata
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)
Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.Stephen Vincent Benet
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.Overheard in Palo Alto...
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.John Sales
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Epistle Dedicatory
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.W. H. Davies
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.Henry David Thoreau
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.Horace, Satires
We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.Jamie Lee Curtis
