Life Quotes
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.Fritjof Capra
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.Smiley Blanton
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.Henry Van Dyke
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.Gustave Flaubert
Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.Maurice Maeterlinck
Life is pain, highness Anyone who says differently is selling something.William Goldman
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.Sandra Carey
Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkne
May you live all the days of your life.Jonathan Swift
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
Life is a progress, and not a station.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.Antoine de Saint - Exupery
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.Nikki Giovanni
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.Harriet Beecher Stowe
False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.Richard Burton
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.Horace Walpole
Be still sad heart and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life a little rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.Longfellow
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.Laurens Van der Post
You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.Dudley Field Malone
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.Jose Ortega y Gasset
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.Chief Seattle
Life is a God - Damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety - Nine men out of a thousand are bastards.Theodore Dreiser, quoting an unnamed newspaper edito
The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.E. V. Lucas
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.Harry Emerson Fosdick
An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.William Shakespeare
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.Harry S. Truman
Anybody who accepts mediocrity - In school, on the job, in life - Is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.Charles Knight
There is only one happiness in life, to love and to be loved.George Sand
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.Ezra Loomis Pound
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.Robert Frost
Life is a dead - End street.Henry Louis Mencken
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - Always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
