Life Quotes
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.Robyn Davidson
Life is too short to be sensible.Unknown
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After - Life spell, And by and by my Soul returned to me, And answered I Myself am Heaven and Hell.Omar Khayym
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.Carl Sagan
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
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.Unknown
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.Clarence Darrow
Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.Winston Churchill
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.Brian Andreas
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.George Bernard Shaw
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.George Eliot
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.Ludwig van Beethoven
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.Joseph Addison
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.Charles Caleb Colton
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.George Farquha
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.Ken Keyes
Happiness is always a by - Product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.Robertson Davies
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.William James
What kind of man would live a life without daring Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.H Hahn Blavatsky
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957
Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.Quentin Crisp
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.Anatole France
Measure your life in love.Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent
Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.Adrienne E. Gusoff
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.Soren Kierkegaard
Custom is the great guide of human life.David Hume
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time.Crowfoot
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.Charles Kingsley
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.John Donne
There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course: a quiet conscience.Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B. C.
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.David Letterman
The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is merely to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.Leo Rosten
