Life Quotes

John sturart mill, defence of hedonism - next to selfishness the principal cause which...
George bernard shaw - this is the true joy in life - - being used for a...
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews.
John Updike
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. LeGuin
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roger banniste - what do we live for if not to make life less...
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton John Sheen
Life has. taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
Alan Stewart Paton
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Sri da Avabhas
Californians invented the concept of life - Style. This alone warrants their doom.
Don DeLillo
Peter Not everyone is meant to make a difference. But for me, the choice to lead an ordinary life is no longer an option.
Spider - Man
If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.
Yukio Mishima
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Soren Kierkegaard
I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death.
Zora Neale Hurston
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Ernest Rutheford
Our land is more valuable than your money. As long as the sun shines and the waters flow, this land will be here to give life to men and animals; therefore, we cannot sell this land. It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we cannot sell it because it does not belong to us.
Blackfoot chief, (c. 1880)
Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Thomas Peters
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1, 000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
Fran Lebowitz
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
Albert Schweitze
You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Booth Luce
Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.
Friedrich Nietzche
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.
Erich Fromm
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Chinese Prove
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
Raymond Holliwell
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carve
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
Robertson Davies
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
Life is too long not to be happy.
Thom Barbe
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language.... We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a common goal of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.
Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)
A dream can be nurtured over years and years and then flourish rapidly.... Be patient. It will happen for you. Sooner or later, life will get weary of beating on you and holding the door shut on you, and then it will let you in and throw you a real party.
Les Brown
There are two messages from theory of Karma. Our condition in this life is determined by our deeds in previous life. We must do good in this life to improve our conditions in next life.
B. J. Gupta
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