Life Quotes

Henry david thoreau - the cost of a thing is the amount of what i call...
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything.
Plato
Ursula k. leguin - the only thing that makes life possible is...
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz, Tuesdays With Morrie
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
William james - this life is worth living, we can say, since it...
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
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
Unknown
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.
Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03 - 20 - 05
Listen to life, it is the wisest teacher of all.
Unknown
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain.
Lois McMaster Bujold
My life is music. And in some vague, mysterious, and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often - - In fact, mostly - - At the expense of everything else in my life.
Stan Getz
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
Dan Rathe
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
Arthur Schopenhaue
What do you do with a lifetime of work? Face it in the morning.
Iggy Pop
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Elinor Glyn
Fortunately, psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
If we get our information from the biblical material there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
Eugene Peterson
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
I am an old man, but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.
Pablo Casals, O Magazine, October 2003
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, Pro Publio Sestio
As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land but the fame that comes after is oblivion.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus.
Albert Camus
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
A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Unknown
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
Kahlil Gibran
Life... would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions.
Helen Hayes
We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
Hope is only the love of life.
Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule.
Samuel Butle