Life Quotes
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1950)
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.Norman Thomas
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
A well - Tied tie is the first serious step in life.Oscar Wilde
Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.Henry Holt
Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.Carl Gustav Jung
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.Horace, Satires
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.Tom Masson
The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.Albert Pike
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.Jackson Pollock
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.Thomas A. Edison
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.Rene Descartes
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.Marcel Ayme
Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.Johann von Goethe
A man without trust is a man without life.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.Victor Hugo
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.Samuel Johnson
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.Rene Angelil
Where there is love there is life.Mahatma Gandhi
For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever - Present sense of humor it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.George Barrell Cheeve
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.Bertrand Russell
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.Theodore Roosevelt
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.Jacques Martin Barzun
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.Unknown
If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - Although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.Confucius
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.Ernest Holmes
You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.Hannah Nixon
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.Evelyn Underhill
This is the truth As from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.Maitri Upanishads
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.Maxwell Maltz
Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.Dale Carnegie
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.Laurie E. Colwin
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.Thomas Mann


