Life Quotes

Zora neale hurston - i want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely...
Sandra carey - never mistake knowledge for wisdom. one helps you...
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)
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
Alfred Korzybski
Joan lunden, in healthy living magazine - holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only...
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
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
Mary S. Calderone
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
Jack Penn
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Antoine Rivarol
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Harriet Lerne
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
Muriel Spark
May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
The mind has a thousand eyes. And the heart but one Yet the life of a whole life dies When love is done.
Francis William Bourdillon
All that counts in life is intention.
Andrea Bocelli, in TV Guide
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Georges Bataille
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - It is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson, baseball playe
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butle
I had learnt to seek intensity? more of life, a concentrated sense of life.
Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
Edwin Whipple
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
Norman Cousins
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life.
Kwan - Tzu
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas
It has just been twenty - Three years since I began to wander. In the next twenty - Three years I wonder if there will come a time when life is no longer a wonderful adventure; when there is not some interesting experience in things or personalities waiting just around the corner. If that time does come, I hope that my release will be swift.
Roy Chapman Andrews, Ends of the Earth, 1929
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
John Masefield, "Window in Bye Street", 1912
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vainthen have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system.
Robert A. Heinlein
Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Sir Theodore Martin
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie