Life Quotes

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Arbie M. Dale

Life is like and ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.

Sharon Salzberg

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course a quiet conscience.

Euripides

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

Marilyn Ferguson

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

H. L. Mencken

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.

Samuel Johnson

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and there is no cause to value one above the other.

H. P. Lovecraft

As is a tale, so is life not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Joe Bob Briggs

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

Oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hoope

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi, " 1906

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word, 1988

Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.

Calvin Coolidge

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Thomas Peters

The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Life is too long not to be happy.

Thom Barbe

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain

Distance lasts a day. But reality lasts a lifetime.

Dr. Laura Schlessinger, The Dr. Laura radio show

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.

Endicott Peabody

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann von Goethe

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.

Jean Paul Richte

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

It ever has been since time began, And ever will be, till time lose breath, That love is a mood - No more - To a man, And love to a woman is life or death.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.

James A. Pike