Life Quotes

Sun tzu - war is a matter of vital importance to the state;...
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George Will
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia
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)
Thomas carlyle - foolish men imagine that because judgment for an...
Joshua j. marine - challenges are what makes life interesting;...
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
Robin Norwood
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Roger Caras
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.
Marya Mannes
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark.. where no one will ever know.. or see.
J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5 (Television Series) "Comes the Inquisitor".
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.
Unknown
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
All doubt, despair, and fear become insignificant once the intention of life becomes love, rather than dependence on love.
Sri da Avabhas
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)
I have always thought it would be a blessing if each person could be blind and deaf for a few days during his early adult life. Darkness would make him appreciate sight silence would teach him the joys of sound.
Hellen Kelle
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.
A. Edward Newton
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant Frazie
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forste
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.
Apuleius
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Benjamin Johnson
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.
Kahlil Gibran
I detest life - Insurance agents they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
Give not over thy soul to sorrow and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
Ecclesiastes
The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
David Russell
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.
Damon Runyon
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
Malcolm Boyd