Life Quotes

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On".

Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn.

Kalidasa

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Arthur Schopenhaue

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Ashley Smith

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz, Social Studies (1981)

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world.

The Talmud

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Epictetus

The only thing that you can carry with you on your travels Is your heart. Fill you heart with good things and good things will follow you For the rest fo your life.

Unknown

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

Mark Twain

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

Cicero

Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair.

Judith Stern

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry L. Stimson

I have found it difficult to endear myself to those who could best positively affect the quality of my life.

Eli Khamarov

All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagne

Self - Respect permeates every aspect of your life.

Joe Clark

Every man has a right to life. That means that he also has a right to make a comfortable living.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright, quoted in his obituary, April 9, 1959

Life is 10 what you make it, and 90 how you take it.

Irving

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.

Douglas Pagels, A Wonderful Resolution For The New Year!

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Igor Stravinsky

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

Mighty are the winds of time, which sweep away the despair of a broken heart, which blow back the essence of life, which refresh the soul with yet another sweet countenance.

Dax Ward

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser, 1590

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Henry Ward Beeche

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

John Updike

It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Graham Greene

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mere sorrow, which weeps and sits still, is not repentance. Repentance is sorrow converted into action; into a movement toward a new and better life.

M. R. Vincent

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

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

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002