Life Quotes

Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.

H. S. Thompson

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

If all the world is a stage and life is just a play upon it, get me two seats in the stalls.

Rob Brown

Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful - - A thought that is love.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Foster C. McClellan

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The Divine Pymande

If you have no confidence in yourself you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.

Harriet Lerne

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Boris Pasternak

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan".

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

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

Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.

Benjamin H. Brewste

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth having.

Juvenal, Satires

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.

William O. Douglas

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Edmund White

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

D. H. Lawrence

Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.

Florence Nightingale

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P. G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs (1914)

There is only one success... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.

Christopher Darlington Morley

My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.

Miles Davis

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Katherine Hepburn

May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.

Native American Prove

Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for.

David Van Boom

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D. H. Lawrence

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.

Samuel Johnson

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

Woody Allen

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. Thus people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffe

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

Seneca