Life Quotes

Bhagawan sri sathya sai baba - life is a challenge - meet it life is a song -...
Miserable mortals who, like leaves, at one moment flame with life, eating the produce of the land, and at another moment weakly perish.
Homer, The Iliad
Hellen kelle - i have always thought it would be a blessing if...
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half - Blood Prince, 2005
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
Leonard Bernstein
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
Blaise Pascal
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - Not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take a chance All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Is there life before death?
Graffito, in Belfast
Horace, satires - we rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a...
I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
Life is divided into three terms - That which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford - Mason, Thinking About Quality
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.
M. Scott Peck
When we hold back on life, life holds us back.
Mary Manin Boggs
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gel
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - And to put its trust in life.
Joseph Conrad
A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.
James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment
A lawyer starts life giving 500 worth of law for 5 and ends giving 5 worth for 500.
Benjamin H. Brewste
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.
Thich Nhat Hanh
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Samuel Butle
If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.
Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.
Unknown
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
Small children disturb your sleep, big children your life.
Yiddish Prove
As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.
Rodney Yee
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde
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, Life is a Dream
Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In this life, Christ is an example, showing us how to live in his death, he is a sacrifice, satisfying for our sins in his resurrection, a conqueror in his ascentions, a kind in his intercession, a high priest.
Martin Luthe
Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.
Richard M. DeVos