Life Quotes

Lydia sigourney - in early childhood you may lay the foundation of...
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
Carl jung - nothing has a stronger influence psychologically...
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
George Sand
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
Hilary Duff
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Jacques Martin Barzun
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
Martha Graham
Is there life before death.
Graffito
I want to live my life so that my nights are full of regrets.
Fitzgerald
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
Jewish Prove
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.
Johann von Goethe
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
Bette Davis
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
William James
Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.
Spider - Man
Life is an onion and one peels it crying.
French Prove
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.
Zelda
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
Sherwood Anderson
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Boris Pasternak
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
Thomas Carlyle
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.
Unknown
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.
Henry L. Stimson
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Edith Hamilton
One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.
Real Live Preache
The world of the commodity is a world updside - Down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.
Raoul Vaneigem
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
Isaac Asimov
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
T. S. Elliot
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau