Life Quotes

Benjamin franklin - if you wouldst live long, live well, for folly...
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
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Jackson Pollock
William james - believe that life is worth living and your belief...
Eugene e. brussell - a fanatic is one compelled to action by the need...
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
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
What I still ask for daily - For life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life.
Reynolds Price
The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.
Unknown
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Hubert H. Humphrey
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Plato, Dialogues, Apology
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
Montesquieu
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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 we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Seneca, Epistles
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
Charles Caleb Colton
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert Humphrey
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl Sagan
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
Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.
Albert Schweitze
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Clarence Darrow
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
Lu Yen
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Life goes on within you and without you.
George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Dr. David M. Burns
Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.
Mohammad Haroon
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.
Nancy Asto
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.
Henry Holt
Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw