Life Quotes

Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farra
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
Benjamin franklin - to lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals....
Remember this - That there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Life is too brief. I had a friend whom I intended to know better. Yesterday he died.
David Grayson
Life... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
Helen Hayes
Our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
George orwell - an autobiography is only to be trusted when it...
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.
Sol Hurok
Henry j. tillman - oregano is the spice of life....
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene Descartes
A well - Developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
William Arthur Ward
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
Phyllis McGinley
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
J. Frank Dobie, His tombstone in the Texas State Cemetery
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential.
Rusty Berkus
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
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 an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.
Patricia Russell - McCloud
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.
Jacques Martin Barzun
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
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
Bible, New Testament, James, Chapter 1, Verse 12
Mine honour is my life both grow in one take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder.
Aeschylus
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Henry Ward Beeche
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow Adams
Whose life is it anyway.
Brian Clark
Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles Dickens
The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.
Pablo Casals
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Unknown
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.
Ellen Stugis Hoope