Life Quotes

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
If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man.
Confucius, Analects, XIV. 12
William goldman, the princess bride - life is pain, anyone who says differently is...
Life is like an ice - Cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
Charles M. Schulz, as "Charlie Brown", Peanuts, cartoon strip
It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Sir Thomas Brown
Life is consciousness.
Emmet Fox
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King
Lewis carroll - it is one of the great secrets of life that those...
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.
Lord Byron, Don Juan
Oscar wilde, the picture of dorian gray, the preface - it is the spectator, and not life, that art...
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Kin Hubbard
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
Ann Landers
Life - Transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Bell Hooks, O Magazine, December 2003
What is life An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David Thoreau
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
Allen Ginsberg
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Stephen Butler Leacock
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling Sometimes it seemed that way.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Whose life is it anyway?
Brian Clark, Play title
Gabriel Well... life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Swordfish
Not many can admit their fears, but those who can lead a fulfilling life of happiness knowing they hide nothing and need not to.
Cyrus Corteise
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik W. Van Loon
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.
George Carlin, You Are All Diseased
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.
Henry Havelock Ellis
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
Arthur Rubinstein
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology".
The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Richard Leide
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett
The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
Loren Eiseley
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Dorothy Day
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
The Lockhorns
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze