Life Quotes

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton John Sheen

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Henry James

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

Oswald Spengle

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Pearl Buck

Man, unlike the animals, has never learned that the sole purpose of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butle

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

Tim McGraw

Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

Robertson Davies

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cut - Throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

Anthony Perkins

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Albert Schweitze

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toome

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

Robert Lynd

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

Winnie - The - Pooh by A. A. Milne

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Life is eating us up. We shall be fables presently. Keep cool it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.

Charles M. Schwa

If I were to begin life again, I should want it as it was. I would only open my eyes a little bit more.

Jules Renard

Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good do good. Be kind be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.

Swami Sivanada

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.

Tieck

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Charles Kingsley

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

Kin Hubbard

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

Albert Einstein

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I have no life, just e - Mail.

Michael Jantze, The Norm (Daily Comic Strip)

Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.

Eugene Delacroix

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham