Life Quotes

Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

Life is too short to settle for anything less than a 110 effort.

Unknown

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

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence".

The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

Felix Adle

Life offers two great gifts - - Time, and the ability to choose how we spend it. Planning is a process of choosing among those many options. If we do not choose to plan, then we choose to have others plan for us.

Richard I. Winword

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.

Rabbi Harold Kushne

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.

Henry James

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Wilson Mizne

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

James Truslow Adams

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things Knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Amelia Earhart

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill

I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.

Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer)

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Alen Coren

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

P. D. James

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt that evil can be fought and that indifference is no option. I have no doubt that fanaticism is dangerous. And of all the books in the world on life, I have no doubt that the life of one person weighs more than them all.

Elie Wiesel, O Magazine, November 2000

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console to be understood as to understand to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive it is in pardoning that we are pardoned and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Saint Francis of Assisi

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Life is a joke. The only way to survive it is to find the right punchline.

Becky Alunan

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.

A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagne

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

The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

Bertrand Russell V. Delong

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

Josh Billings

There are two ways to slide easily through life to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli