Life Quotes

Henry adams - one friend in a lifetime is much two are many...
F. scott fitzgerald - to write it, it took three months; to conceive...
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
Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me... Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me throughout the rest of my life and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Bible, Psalm 23, New Testament
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W. S. Maugham, Of Human Bondage
Maxim gorky - when work is a pleasure, life is a joy when work...
My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.
Albert Einstein
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
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
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.
Euripides
The most decisive actions of our life - - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - - Are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
There is no greater joy than of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
Henri Bergson
My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.
The Lockhorns
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Mille
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffet, Tales Form Margaritaville
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse
Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
Richard Byrd
If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?
Unknown
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - - when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions - - It becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undoneThe wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Life is not meaningful to us unless serving an end beyond itself, unless it is of value to someone else.
Abraham J. Herschel
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
Raymond Holliwell
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
Pinda
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - Not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
George Washington Carve
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15 - Inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
Ernest Rutheford
We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Plato
A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Oprah Winfrey
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth Kubler - Ross
Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created.
Anonymous
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
Frederika Breme