Life Quotes

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

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

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Jean Paul Richte

Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.

Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)

Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles Monroe Schultz

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

Simone Weil

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

James Barrie

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.

Oscar Wilde

What we play is life.

Louis Armstrong

I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.

Norman Maile

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Pete

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.

Lawrence George Durrell

Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Sol Hurok

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

Muriel Spark

I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

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

Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

Richard Bach

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.

Samuel Butle

Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 4

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

John Dean

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life - Style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella - No matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.

Jean Ke

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.

Anonymous

Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.

Micron

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

W. B. Yeats

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.

Henry Havelock Ellis

Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

James F. Byrnes

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

D. H. Lawrence

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Kahlil Gibran