Life Quotes

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Dave Barry

I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.

Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994

It is better to die standing on your feet, than live the rest of your life on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

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

Joseph Addison

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.

Man is immortal therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea it can only find itself in changing forms.

Rabindranath Tagore

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.

Edith Wharton

Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life.

Andrew Bonar Law

The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Andre Malraux

Is there life before death?

Graffito, in Belfast

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Maxwell Maltz, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another.

Rig Veda

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.

Henry David Thoreau

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

Angela Schwindt

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer - Lytton

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is a bitch get use to her or else she will make you pay for having her.

Mohammad Haroon

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Bertrand Russell

The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple.

Eugene Kennedy

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon William Allport

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.

Newell Dwight Hillis

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Luella F. Phean

Life is like an onion. You peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Unknown

One should count each day a separate life.

Seneca

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Charles Schwa

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Too much sanity may be madness - And the maddest of all - To see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Elisabeth Kuebler - Ross