Life Quotes
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.George Washington Carve
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains.G. K. Chesterton
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is neither a formality nor a mode it is rather a life.David Grayson
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.Elizabeth Goudge
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.Robert F. Bennett
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.George Orwell
Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.A. Sachs
Life is like an ever - Shifting kaleidoscope - A slight change, and all patterns alter.Sharon Salzberg
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.Anita Brookne
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.Norman Cousins
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN: Or, Life in the Woods
We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?Richard Bach, One
I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.Margery Cuyle
I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead.Ronald Reagan, Nov. 5, 1994
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life but the same thing can be said of the most weak.Eric Amble
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities - That sense of a family being like a kitchen midden layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one - Dimensional.Laurie E. Colwin
This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.Unknown
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.Randolph Bourne
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.Christa McAuliffe
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.Blaise Pascal
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives meaning to our life on this unavailing star.Logan Pearsall Smith
We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.Marlin Finch Lupus
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely. everyone who changes his or her life because of crime. have been denied a basic civil right.George Herbert Walker Bush
Grow old along with me The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made Our times are in his hand who saith, A whole I planned, Youth shows but half trust God See all, nor be afraid.Robert Browning
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.Thomas Carlyle
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he imaged, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.Albert Einstein
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.Miguel de Cervantes
There is a need for heroism in American life today.Vicki Baum
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.George Bernard Shaw
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.Stephen King
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.Unknown
