Life Quotes

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Robert Byrne

But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer.

Martha Nussbaum, O Magazine, November 2003

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19

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

When humans participate in ceremony, they enter a sacred space. Everything outside of that space shrivels in importance. Time takes on a different dimension. Emotions flow more freely. The bodies of participants become filled with the energy of life, and this energy reaches out and blesses the creation around them. All is made new everything becomes sacred.

Sun Bea

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life, than on the nature of those events themselves.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Hoffe

Live a life as a monument to your soul.

Ayn Rand

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Kahlil Gibran

Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.

Unknown

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

Charles Spurgeon

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

George Bernard Shaw

To love oneself is the beginning of a life - Long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in New York, September 7, 1903

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Charles Scribner, Jr.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

Edith Hamilton

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

False enchantment can last a lifetime.

W. H. Auden

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three

We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

Cato the Elde

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

Is there life before death.

Graffito

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

George Will

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

H. G. Wells

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

Booker T. Washington

To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.

Arbie M. Dale

We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

Berenson

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.

Orison Swett Marden

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Henry Holt