Life Quotes
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.Eleanor Marx
Words have a longer life than deeds.Pindar, Nemean Odes
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
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.Pinda
Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.Alexander Senturia
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.Longfellow
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.John A. Rassias
There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.Albert Camus
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.Margot Fonteyn
Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.Richard Willard Armou
Energy is that amazing feeling that comes to life inside of you when you? re happy and believe in yourself.Richard Simmons
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.Robert Frost
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second.Jim Fiebig
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.William James
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.Jose Ortega y Gasset
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.Albert Einstein
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles Kingsley
The real test of friendship is Can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.Eugene Kennedy
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.Detronius Arbite
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.Sir Francis Bacon
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.Bertrand Russell
To realize that prophecy in the people is like fruit in the tree is to know the unity of life.Kahlil Gibran
In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.Nathaniel Hawthorne
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.Alexander A. Bogomoletz
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.Buddha
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.James Barrie
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.Ivy Baker Priest
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life.Albert Einstein
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.Laurens Van der Post
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.Pablo Picasso
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.Plato, The Republic
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.Dave Barry
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.George Bernard Shaw


