Life Quotes
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
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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein
Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.Irving
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.Alfred Lord Tennyson
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.Benjamin Franklin
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel de Cervantes
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.Lois McMaster Bujold
All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.M. C. Richards
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pindar, 518 - 438 B. C.
Self - Reverence, self knowledge, self - Control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power.Lord Tennyson
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.Karl Barth
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.Socrates
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.Heywood
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.Aristotle
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.Douglas Adams
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.Cicero
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back; a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.Anais Nin
Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.Jean Paul Richte
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.Barbara De Angelis
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.George Bernard Shaw
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine De Saint - Exupery
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.Martin Luthe
Life without a friend is death without a witness.Danish prove
Most of the luxuries and many of the so - Called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.Alfred Tennyson
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.English prove
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions?Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever.Anatole France
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.Annie Besant
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.Don DeLillo
