Life Quotes

The bigger the real - Life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy - Land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.

Tom Naylo

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Buddha

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lifes, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Blyth

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Men seek but one thing in life - Their pleasure.

W. Somerset Maugham

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Mark Twain

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Walter Stegne

This is the reason we cannot complain of lifeit keeps no one against his wll.

Seneca

Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.

John Tyndall

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

William James

Age, health, and stage in life have nothing to do with serving or not serving. In each season of life there are attributes and qualities of life and experience that God values in service.

Bruce Kempe

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

Robert Browning

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James Agee

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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

Patricia Russell - McCloud

Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Challenges are what make life interesting overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - To do nothing at all.

Sydney Smith

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton John Sheen

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - The little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

Marlin Finch Lupus

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

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.

Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.

Deepak Chopra

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

James Barrie

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

Marion Howard

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not this gives us no concern - - why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be.

William Hazlitt