Life Quotes
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
There is only one success - To be able to spend your life in your own way.Unknown
It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.Hubert Humphrey
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.Arnold Toynbee
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.Kabbalah
You can not gain peace by avoiding life.Virginia Woolf
He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.Johnson
That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life he transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.Erich Fromm
The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.Barbara De Angelis
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.Basil W. Maturin
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Henry Ford
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.Henry Van Dyke
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.Albert Einstein
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
At points of clarity, I realize that my life on earth is meaningless, and that I am merely a pawn in a bigger game. A game I cannot possible understand or have control of. Thankfully, before depression sets in, I drift back into my cloudy, bewildered daily routine.Joel Patrick Warneke
They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.George Bernard Shaw
Life is an escalator You can move forward or backward you can not remain still.Patricia Russell - McCloud
Friendship multiplies the good in life and divides the evil.Baltasar Gracian
Love is the very essence of life.Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.Thomas Jefferson
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.Foster C. McClellan
In the next year or so, my signature will appear on 60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life - The strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.Katherine D. Ortega
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.Earl Warren
Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.Mary Asto
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.Thomas Merton
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there id only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.Martha Graham
Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the American way of life, whatever the piety of their vocal professions and the patriotic flavor of their platitudes.Henry M. Wriston
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem - And in my esteem age is not estimable.George Gordon Byron
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.Alice Kahn
What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.Ivan Pavlov
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Reading, 1854
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.Berthald Auerbach
I am one of those who believe that spiritual progress is a rule of human life, but the approach to perfection is slow and painful. If a woman elevates herself in one respect and is retarded in another, it is because the rough trail that leads to the mountain peak is not free of ambushes of thieves and lairs of wolves.Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
Grade school is the snooze button on the clock - Radio of life.John Rogers
So long as faith with freedom reigns And loyal hope survives, And gracious charity remains To leaven lowly lives; While there is one untrodden tract For intellect or will, And men are free to think and act, Life is worth living still.Alfred Austin
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.Anthony Trollope
Grieve not that I die young. Is it not well To pass away ere life hath lost its brightness?Lady Flora Hastings, ? Swan Song?
