Life Quotes

S? ren kierkegaard - there are many people who reach their conclusions...
If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.
Rob Brown
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.
Yiddish Prove
Peter coope - i have always recognized that the object of...
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthald Auerbach
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
Apuleius
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.
Abraham J. Herschel
Love is the very essence of life.
Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Anonymous
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to chage the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.
W. H. Davies
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature".
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers.
Earl Nightingale
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
William Feathe
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
George T. Hewitt
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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
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
May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.
Rabindranath Tagore
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
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
Blaise Pascal
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.
Mary Manin Morrissey
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Foster C. McClellan
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
As was his language so was his life.
Seneca
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
John Sales
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Clifton Fadiman