Life Quotes
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves - - To break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.Stewart B. Johnson
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.David Gerrold
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.Author Unknown
If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.Elizabeth Bowen
Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life.Anonymous
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.Buddha
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.Victor Hugo
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.Evelyn Underhill
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth.Susanne Lange
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
What is life It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.John Patrick
Before you were conceived I wanted you. Before you were born I loved you. Before you were here an hour I would die for you. This is the miracle of life.Maureen Hawkins
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me.Erma Bombeck
One life - A little gleam of Time between two Eternities.Thomas Carlyle
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.Unknown
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
Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched.Unknown
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Let us forever forget that every station in life is necessarily that each deserves our respect; that not the station itself; but the worthy fulfillment of its duties does honor the man.Mary Lyon
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.Rainer Maria Rilke
The unexamined life is not worth living.Socrates
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.Henry Mille
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.Colette, Chance Acquaintances, 1952
It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision - Making muscles.Anthony Robbins
The real tradegy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort - He never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.Arnold Bennett
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.Christopher Isherwood
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.Charles Roberts Buxton
Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.Unknown
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always this occupation ought to last as long as life.Queen Christina
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the life - Long attempt to acquire it.Albert Einstein
That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.George Santayana
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.D. Elton Trueblood
Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.James A. Pike
