Life Quotes

Maitri upanishads - this is the truth as from a fire aflame thousands...
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Dale Carnegie
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
Kabbalah - rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward...
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
Aristotle
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.
Sydney Smith
If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.
Eric Hoffe
When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.
Phillips Brooks
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Virgil
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Meryl Streep
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
The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.
Unknown
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.
Bruce Kempe
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
George Santayana
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life.
Henry Havelock Ellis
You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.
John Updike, Rabbit Redux
I take a simple view of life keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivie
Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.
Michael Sinz
All my pupils are the crme de la crme. Give me a girl of an impressionable age, and she is mine for life.
Muriel Spark
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
I could be content that we might procreate, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition it is the most foolish act a wise man commits in all his life.
Sir Thomas Browne
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.
Ernestine Ulme
Imagine there? s no countries, it isn? t hard to do; nothing to kill or die for, and no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.
John Lennon, Imagine
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.
Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6