Life Quotes

Laurens van der post, venture to the interior (1951) - there is a way in which the collective knowledge...
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Arbie M. Dale
Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
And if it all falls apart, I will know deep in my heart, the only dream that mattered had come true. In this life, I was loved by you.
Colin Raye
Marie curie - nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be...
The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel (1856)
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy
A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.
Greek Prove
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.
Jim Fiebig
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
Thomas Brackett Reed
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Walter Scott
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Charles Kingsley
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
W. B. Yeats
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
Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.
The Talmud, Mishna. Sanhedrin
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
Carl Jung, "Modern Man in Search of a Soul".
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Jeseph Joubert
As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.
Kahlil Gibran
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but that mark of a fake messiah.
Richard Bach
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Life is too short to be sensible.
Unknown
What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Albert Einstein
I have always recognized that the object of business is to make money in an honorable manner. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.
Peter Coope
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley