Life Quotes

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Johann von Goethe

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Socrates

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Michael Landon

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Martin Luthe

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, April 2, 1957

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

Thomas Merton

Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... Higher emotions, and table manners.

Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Yann Martel, Life of Pi

As an adolescent... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.

Charles De Gaulle

Life is an onion and one peels it crying.

French Prove

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

Thomas Jefferson

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.

George Woodberry

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.

Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Alfred Hitchcock

Between thought and expression lies a lifetime.

Lou Reed

Life is as tedious as a twice - Told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Jawaharlal Nehru

It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jr.

Life was a funny thing that occured on the way to the grave.

Quentin Crisp

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Life is either always a tight - Rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight - Rope.

Edith Wharton

Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Immanuel Kant

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

Steven Weinberg

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

The aim of sadism is to transform a man into a thng, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - Freedom.

Erich Fromm

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu

I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Sir Laurence Olivie

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein, on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

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