Life Quotes
Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - Then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.Endicott Peabody
I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there? s purpose and worth to each and every life.Ronald Reagan
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.Boris Pasternak
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.La Bruyere
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.Og Mandino, The Greatest Miracle in the World
Success in life is measured, most easily, by the number of days that a person is truly happy.Eric Edmeades, Editor, Success Express Journal (circa 1996)
History makes us some amends for the shortness of life.Philip Skelton
Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.Nicholas Murray Butle
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar Bradley
Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.George Tooke
Life is too short for a long story.Mary Wortley Montagu
In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.Charles M. Schwa
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.Joseph Chilton Pearce
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.Storm Jameson
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Love is the very essence of life.Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.John Constable
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life.Bible
Sooner of later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.Shakti Gawain
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday.Unknown, Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown)
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright
Family means too much, Friends are too valuable, And life is too short, To put - Off sharing with people, How much they really mean to you, And pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy.Unknown
The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.Thomas Mann
This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis Schutz
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.W. Somerset Maugham
The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory
Life is like a ten - Speed bike; most of us have gears we never use.Charles M. Schulz
Life itself is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The bonds that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.Harry Emerson Fosdick
