Life Quotes

Ralph emerson - to know that one life has breathed easier because...
Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.
Karl Kraus
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations and suddenly find - At the age of fifty, say - That a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about... It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
Agatha Christie
Thomas jefferson (the declaration of independence) - whenever any form of government becomes...
Perhaps each life has one sensational thought, if acted upon will bring great meaning.
Michael R. Bae
From what we get, we can make a living what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe
Spirit is living, and Life is Spirit, and Life and Spirit produce all things, but they are essentially one and not two.
H Hahn Blavatsky
As a rule, he or she who has the most information will have the greatest success in life.
Benjamin Disraeli
Oh, how I love the Earth and everything in it, life and death. And men. One can think of nothing finer, or nicer, than men their wars, their concentration camps, their justice.
Marcel Ayme
Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality - - Do whatever makes the most money.
Barry Schwartz
The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthime
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non - Being.
The Dhammapada
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.
Alfred Austin
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Simone de Beauvoi
Art is long, life short judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Johann von Goethe
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
Charles M. Schwa
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
Ayn Rand
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
W. Somerset Maugham
The course of life in unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
Abraham J. Heschel
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Les Brown
I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
Basil W. Maturin
We stare into the fire of life, the flame of the soul, Yet we stand, so far away, Basking in the eternal energy that flows from within it, We stand back, too scared to approach the flames.
Unknown
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Jesus
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone.... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.
W. Edwards Deming
Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
Sometimes I would rather that people take away years from my life Than take away a moment.
Pearl Bailey
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.
John Ruskin
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
Whittaker Chambers
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
James Taylo
Life is going to give you just what you put into it. Put your whole heart in everything you do.
Vivian Baxte
Life must be lived as play.
Plato