Life Quotes

John claypool - we do not first get all the answers and then live...
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Author Unknown
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Buddha
If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.
A. P. Gouthey
Eleanor roosevelt - one thing life has taught me: if you are...
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.
Grace Paley
A man has to have a code, a way of life to live by.
John Wayne, the book "My Life With the Duke".
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra
Life is too short to be sensible.
Unknown
It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
Unknown
Beanie Well, let me be the first to say congratulations to you man you have one vagina for the rest of your life. Real smart man.
Old School
I detest life - Insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock
The evening of a well spent life brings its lamps with it.
Jeseph Joubert
No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Sydney Smith
Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.
Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha
Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end - Result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.
Grace Speare
You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.
T. S. Elliot
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling in them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard E. Byrd
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
Life is too short to be taken seriously.
Author Unknown
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Life was made to be enjoyed as well as endured.
Unknown
My life is one long curve, full of turning points.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David Thoreau
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 2
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylo
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Seneca
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
Anonymous
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
Lawrence George Durrell