Life Quotes

No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.

Robert Lynd

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Eric Hoffe

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

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

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others.

William Hazlitt

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

Author Unknown

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

James Joseph Sylveste

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Rob Brown

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Schweitze

What is this life if, so full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.

W. H. Davies

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

David Van Boom

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

George Santayana

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

Jack London, The Call of the Wild

Life is short; live it up.

Khrushchev

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin, "Winter of Artifice".

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Ann Landers

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)

At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.

Barbara DeAngelis

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

Ayn Rand

When you determined what you want, you have made the most important decision of your life. You have to know what you want in order to attain it.

Douglas Lurtan

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Karl Kraus

Bitterness imprisons life love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life love empowers it. Bitterness sours life love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life love heals it. Bitterness blinds life love anoints its eyes.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

No life that breathes with human breath Has ever truly longed for death.

Alfred Tennyson

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

John Barrymore

God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rubinstein

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

Andrew Soloman, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, comments from his mother shortly before her suicide

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude: Works and Days, 1870