Life Quotes
Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.Charles Monroe Schultz
What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.Unknown
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone? The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.Lin Yutang, O Magazine, October 2002
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.Friedrich Von Schlegel
If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.A. Edward Newton
The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done.Francis William Bourdillon
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.George Sand
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.Lillian Dickson
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.Michael Johnson
To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.Oscar Homolka
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.Clarence Darrow
God has placed in each soul an apostle to lead us upon the illumined path. Yet many seek life from without, unaware that is within them.Kahlil Gibran
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.Beryl Markham
There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.Kathleen Norris
As was his language so was his life.Seneca
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
There are two things to aim at in life first, to get what you want and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.Logan Pearsall Smith
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.George Gordon Byron
It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be.Benjamin Johnson
A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.Osho, The art of Dying
On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions it is the best refreshment on the journey and it is the greatest property.Buddha
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
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.Pearl S. Buck
Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.George Lorime
What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.Crowfoot
To save time is to lengthen life.Author Unknown
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.Henry David Thoreau
Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)
Truth never dies, but lives a wretched life.Yiddish Prove
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.Nido Qubein
I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun
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
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.Alcaeus
Life is not a matter of milestones, but of moments.Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.Andrew Carnegie
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.Frances Willard
