Life Quotes
Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.Erica Jong
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.Booker T. Washington
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.Patrick Henry
Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.Tom Lehre
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.Akhenaton
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.Abraham J. Heschel
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Walter Stegne
Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.Rabindranath Tagore
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
I wish you all the good and charm that life can offer. Think of me kindly, and rest assured that no one would more rejoice to hear of your happiness.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.Erich Fromm
Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.Dorothy Parke
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.George Bernard Shaw
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.Laurens Van der Post, Venture to the Interior (1951)
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.A. P. Gouthey
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.Gene Roddenberry
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.Kwan - Tzu
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.Eric Hoffe
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.Harry Emerson Fosdick
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.Emily Dickinson
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
He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.Sophocles
What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.Searamouche
Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.James Barrie
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.Sri da Avabhas
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Quoting Churchill.Ronald Reagan
