Life Quotes

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

Anonymous

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

Life is a continual upgrade.

J. Mark Wallace

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Remember this, very little is needed to make a happy life.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

Wealth and children are the adornment of life.

Koran

Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dreamFor the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real Life is earnestAnd the grave is not its goalDust thou art to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.

Unknown

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel (1856)

The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non - Action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.

Lu Yen

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

And so faith is closing your eyes and following the breath of your soul down to the bottom of life, where existence and nonexistence have merged into irrelevance. All that matters is the little part you play in the vast drama.

Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin

I do not fear the inevitable death for it is certain. Instead I fear life for here anything is possible.

Mavette Sadile

Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V (MacBeth)

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca, Epistles

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Asto

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

Buddha

Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.

Norman Cousins

Life..... is a series of dogs.

George Carlin

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

Hilary Duff

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant and made to do.

Phillips Brooks

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Albert Schweitze

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

Elinor Glyn

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prathe

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

George Eliot

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

Patricia Russell - McCloud

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwan

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - - Or nothing.

Nancy Asto

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse