Life Quotes

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There are times of pure joy when you wish all human life well.
Francis Bacon
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Kahlil Gibran
Rumor is not always wrong. - From Life of Agricola.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Joachim du bellay, sonnet de regrets - happy the man who, like ulysses, has made a fine...
God, I don? t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 26, 2002
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
James M. Barrie
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Jean Paul Richte
For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
Laura Swenson
Only actions give life strength only moderation gives it a charm.
Jean Paul Richte
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.
Akhenaton
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Stanley Lindquist
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
Joan Lunden, in Healthy Living Magazine
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
Plato
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun - Illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
Edwin Markham
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
Author Unknown
Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
Dr. Smiley Blanton
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spence
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
The Christian does not consider death to be the end of his life, but the end of his troubles.
A. Mark Wells
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
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
Henry Boye
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
Kahlil Gibran
The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.
Marilyn Ferguson
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
Shakespeare
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - - It can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.
Overheard in Palo Alto...
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
Victor Hugo
I see knowledge increasing and human power increasing. I see ever - Increasing possibilities before life, And I see no limits set to it at all, Existence impresses me as a perpetual dawn. Our lives, as I apprehend, are great in expectations.
H. G. Wells
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.
Aldous Huxley
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
Julia T. Alvarez
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, August 2004
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we all take a little of each other everywhere.
Tim McGraw