Life Quotes

Adele brookman - use your imagination not to scare yourself to...
I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.
William Hazlitt
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Anita Brookne
Aeschylus - the meaning i picked, the one that changed my...
His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
Elizabeth II
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
Buddha
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.
David Van Boom
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.
Albert Einstein
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.
David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal Newman
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
Norman Maile
There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.
Christopher Darlington Morley
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walke
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe believe life it teaches better than book or orator.
Johann von Goethe
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
Thomas Merton
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
Kahlil Gibran
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
Juvenal
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.
William Hazlitt
General Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too.
Sherwood Anderson
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it.
Bob Newhart
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Unknown
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...
Amelia Ba
Science is the only true guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 22. 09. 1924