Life Quotes

Cicero - our span of life is brief, but is long enough for...
Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
Spider - Man
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert Schweitze
She knows what is the best purpose of education not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.
John Mason Brown
J. m. barrie - i know not, sir whether bacon wrote the works of...
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Jeseph Joubert
Life is real Life is earnest And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.
Reinhold Niebuh
Most history is a record of triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
Philip Howard
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
Ralph W. Sockman
Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
Life is a promise fulfill it.
Mother Theresa
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.
Norman Cousins
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
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.
David Grayson
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell
Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.
Leonid Sukhorukov
It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.
Anthony Robbins
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
La Bruyere
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose.
Jo Coudert, "Advice From A Failure".
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Unknown
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
Robert F. Bennett
The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
Brandon Lee
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
Patrick Henry
To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
Madame de Maintenon
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
Hagar the Horrible
If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
Jennifer Jones
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Boris Pasternak
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.
Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Real life is, to most men, a long second - Best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Bertrand Russell
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
Mike Leonard
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
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale