Life Quotes

Graffito - is there life before death....
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Nathan Hale, last words, 22 September 1776
Unknown - it is not doing the things we like to do, but...
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
Daniel Boorstin
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!
It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
We hold these truths to be self - Evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
US Declaration of Independence
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".
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Julia T. Alvarez
David mamet - free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball...
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
How strange is the lot of us mortals Each of us is here for a brief sojourn for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
Shakti Gawain
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
George Santayana
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.
Crowfoot
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann von Goethe
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.
Kathleen Norris
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rathe
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Jonathan Larson
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the destribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.
G. H. Hardy
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Ernest Rutheford
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
John Lennon
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, and to work, and to play, and to look up at the stars and sun.
Henry Van Dyke
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
We trained hard, but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
From Petronii Arbitri Satyricon AD 66 (Attributed to Gaius Petronus, a Roman General who later committed suicide)
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie