Life Quotes

Flora colao - life is playfulness... we need to play so that we...
The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
Edmund White
Greek prove - a word out of season may mar a whole lifetime....
Michael j. gel - life is a continuous exercise in creative problem...
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
Unknown
Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
David Starr Jordan
So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Swordfish
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists life would be one long Congressional Record.
Tom Masson
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
Harold Loukes
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
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
Jane Fonda
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Faulkne
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham J. Heschel
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Michael Landon
With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, O Magazine, October 2003
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
Edward Morgan Forste
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Life is a foreign language all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
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
Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority it is the highest summit of art and life.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.
Augusta Jane Evans
The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali
To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, "Meditations", book 5.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dr. Robert Schulle
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
Nido Qubein
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
Beryl Markham
I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.
William J. Locke
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
Eugene Kennedy