Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

life

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. 14 quotes from Jim Morrison

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. 23 views from Henry Miller

This is the strangest life I've ever known. 14 quotes from Jim Morrison

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. 26 other quotes from Emily Dickinson

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. 2 quotes from Steven Biko

Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is joy enough. 26 more wisdom & wit from Emily Dickinson

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it. 23 quotes from Walt Disney

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. 46 wisdom & wit from George Santayana

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. 7 quotes from Phillips Brooks

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. 23 sayings from Walt Disney

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes. 10 more views from Frank Sinatra

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. 68 more wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. 68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. 11 other views from Rebecca West

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. 7 wisdom & wit from Samuel Smiles

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. 68 sayings from Samuel Butler

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. 75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. 24 views from Carl Sandburg

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. 40 thoughts from William James

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. 2 other quotes from Jackie Robinson

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. 96 more views from Benjamin Franklin

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. 14 sayings from William Arthur Ward

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. 19 quotes from Anton Chekhov

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. 40 more wisdom & wit from William James

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. 12 thoughts from Simone de Beauvoir

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 96 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. 12 other views from Thomas Merton

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. 56 more quotes from Khalil Gibran

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life. 9 quotes from Swami Vivekananda

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. 2 wisdom & wit from Arthur Rubinstein

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. 7 more quotes from Tallulah Bankhead

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. 11 thoughts from Meister Eckhart

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. 29 other views from W. Somerset Maugham

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. 2 other quotes from Sitting Bull

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. 15 more quotes from Albert Schweitzer

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. 8 quotes from Ernest Holmes

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. 16 wisdom & wit from Isaac Asimov

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. 56 other wisdom & wit from Khalil Gibran

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' 41 quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. 96 other views from Benjamin Franklin

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. 12 other quotes from Thomas Merton

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. 19 sayings from Edgar Allan Poe

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. 56 other views from Khalil Gibran

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. 3 more quotes from Cary Grant

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life. 24 more thoughts from W. C. Fields

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. 7 quotes from Lewis Carroll

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink. 24 other quotes from W. C. Fields

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? 19 wisdom & wit from Edgar Allan Poe

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. 6 quotes from William Lyon Phelps

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. 40 views from William James

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. 40 quotes from William James

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. 26 more quotes from E. M. Forster

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. 41 wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 16 other quotes from Isaac Asimov

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. 15 other wisdom & wit from Albert Schweitzer

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. 41 more thoughts from Martin Luther King, Jr.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. 40 other quotes from William James

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice. 56 thoughts from Khalil Gibran

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. 40 more thoughts from William James

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. 96 quotes from Benjamin Franklin

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. 56 views from Khalil Gibran

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. 26 wisdom & wit from E. M. Forster

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. 9 sayings from Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. 41 more wisdom & wit from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. 56 quotes from Khalil Gibran

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. 67 more views from Francis Bacon

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray. 36 quotes from Lord Byron

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. 12 quotes from Simone de Beauvoir

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. 36 quotes from Lord Byron

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. 4 views from Carl Rogers

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. 15 quotes from Albert Schweitzer

People living deeply have no fear of death. 21 more wisdom & wit from Anais Nin

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. 24 other wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. 9 thoughts from Alfred Adler

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. 73 thoughts from Victor Hugo

There is no wealth but life. 45 thoughts from John Ruskin

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country. 21 more quotes from Anais Nin

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. 7 sayings from Langston Hughes

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. 8 views from James Dean

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. 21 wisdom & wit from Anais Nin

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. 8 quotes from Charles Darwin

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. 47 other quotes from Abraham Lincoln

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. 5 views from Andre Breton

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. 16 sayings from Havelock Ellis

Children make your life important. 33 other quotes from Erma Bombeck

Dreams are necessary to life. 21 sayings from Anais Nin

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. 3 quotes from Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. 47 more views from Abraham Lincoln

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. 24 quotes from Ayn Rand

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. 25 more quotes from Simone Weil

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. 47 quotes from Abraham Lincoln

Life is the flower for which love is the honey. 73 sayings from Victor Hugo

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. 21 more views from Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. 21 other sayings from Anais Nin

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 23 quotes from Thomas A. Edison

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? 11 views from Bob Marley

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. 4 quotes from Jean Ingelow

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. 18 other sayings from Joseph Campbell

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. 23 other quotes from Vincent Van Gogh

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. 3 quotes from Richard L. Evans

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. 50 other sayings from Robert Frost

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. 18 other quotes from Jean Paul

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. 7 other thoughts from B. F. Skinner

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. 18 quotes from Joseph Campbell

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. 105 quotes from Albert Einstein

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. 12 views from Julius Caesar

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. 18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. 3 quotes from Sholom Aleichem

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. 18 quotes from Joseph Campbell

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. 17 more quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. 17 quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. 50 quotes from Robert Frost

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. 18 more thoughts from Joseph Campbell

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. 50 more views from Robert Frost

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on. 50 more quotes from Robert Frost

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything. 50 sayings from Robert Frost

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat. 105 other sayings from Albert Einstein

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. 18 quotes from Joseph Campbell

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended. 50 more views from Robert Frost

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. 105 other sayings from Albert Einstein

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. 18 quotes from Joseph Campbell

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. 6 more quotes from William Morris

To be free is to have achieved your life. 17 quotes from Tennessee Williams

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. 18 more quotes from Joseph Campbell

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. 105 more quotes from Albert Einstein

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. 8 quotes from Vernon Howard

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. 18 more sayings from Joseph Campbell

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. 17 quotes from Tennessee Williams

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. 18 more quotes from Jean Paul

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. 17 wisdom & wit from Leo Buscaglia

Our life is what our thoughts make it. 41 quotes from Marcus Aurelius

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. 10 quotes from Booker T. Washington

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. 38 wisdom & wit from William Hazlitt

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. 41 other quotes from Marcus Aurelius

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. 70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. 70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. 41 sayings from Marcus Aurelius

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. 41 more views from Marcus Aurelius

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone. 11 more wisdom & wit from Charlie Chaplin

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. 21 quotes from William Wordsworth

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. 27 thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. 81 other quotes from William Shakespeare

Do every act of your life as if it were your last. 41 thoughts from Marcus Aurelius

I bear a charmed life. 81 thoughts from William Shakespeare

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud. 6 views from Emile Zola

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. 7 views from Abraham Maslow

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. 5 other thoughts from Charlotte Bronte

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. 42 quotes from Josh Billings

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. 81 quotes from William Shakespeare

Life has a higher end, than to be amused. 11 views from William Ellery Channing

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. 9 other wisdom & wit from Vladimir Nabokov

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. 11 more quotes from Charlie Chaplin

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 81 sayings from William Shakespeare

Life is half spent before we know what it is. 12 more sayings from George Herbert

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. 3 sayings from Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life well spent is long. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. 15 more sayings from Christopher Morley

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

As soon as there is life there is danger. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. 2 quotes from Omar Khayyam

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. 46 views from John F. Kennedy

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. 35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. 135 other views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. 13 other quotes from James M. Barrie

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. 35 views from Rabindranath Tagore

It is not length of life, but depth of life. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. 135 views from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. 22 views from Soren Kierkegaard

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. 135 more sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. 22 more quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. 2 other quotes from Irving Berlin

Life is a long lesson in humility. 13 sayings from James M. Barrie

Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. 4 quotes from Jose Ortega y Gasset

Life is hard it's harder if you're stupid. 4 thoughts from John Wayne

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. 22 other thoughts from Soren Kierkegaard

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. 4 quotes from John Wayne

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. 21 wisdom & wit from Malcolm X

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. 46 sayings from John F. Kennedy

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know. 135 wisdom & wit from Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. 14 other quotes from Audrey Hepburn

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. 45 views from Bertrand Russell

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. 16 more quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. 22 quotes from Soren Kierkegaard

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. 23 more quotes from Niccolo Machiavelli

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. 14 thoughts from Audrey Hepburn

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground. 52 thoughts from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. 24 quotes from Joseph Addison

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. 45 views from Bertrand Russell

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. 135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. 14 thoughts from Audrey Hepburn

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now. 135 more quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror. 26 views from Sigmund Freud

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory. 11 other quotes from Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. 23 thoughts from E. W. Howe

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence. 35 other quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way. 15 other quotes from Christopher Morley

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude. 52 other wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? 53 more thoughts from Marilyn Monroe

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good. 31 other quotes from Helen Keller

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one. 59 wisdom & wit from Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. 16 more views from Vince Lombardi

The quality of life is more important than life itself. 5 other quotes from Alexis Carrel

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. 31 more quotes from Helen Keller

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. 15 more thoughts from Norman Cousins

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change. 26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it. 5 more thoughts from Igor Stravinsky

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. 59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. 16 sayings from Vince Lombardi

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. 21 quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really. 53 more quotes from Marilyn Monroe

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. 53 quotes from Marilyn Monroe

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! 53 thoughts from Marilyn Monroe

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. 17 other quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Life in abundance comes only through great love. 59 sayings from Elbert Hubbard

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. 4 more sayings from Gilda Radner

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. 31 other quotes from Helen Keller

Life is either a great adventure or nothing. 31 quotes from Helen Keller

Life is just one damned thing after another. 59 quotes from Elbert Hubbard

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference. 2 wisdom & wit from Virginia Satir

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death. 59 views from Elbert Hubbard

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. 14 more views from Jean Anouilh

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend. 117 other quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. 115 other views from George Bernard Shaw

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. 115 more thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. 14 more wisdom & wit from Robert A. Heinlein

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something. 117 views from Henry David Thoreau

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. 5 quotes from Aphra Behn

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. 35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. 15 other quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. 19 views from E. B. White

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? 35 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. 117 more views from Henry David Thoreau

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. 3 quotes from Isaac Watts

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it. 115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 115 more views from George Bernard Shaw

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. 27 more thoughts from Dave Barry

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. 6 other quotes from Abraham Cahan

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. 115 other quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. 115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw

Live the life you've dreamed. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat. 117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. 115 sayings from George Bernard Shaw

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. 14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. 117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. 19 views from Carl Jung

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. 117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. 3 quotes from Karl A. Menninger

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself. 115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. 11 quotes from William Osler

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. 117 wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. 117 more views from Henry David Thoreau

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. 115 quotes from George Bernard Shaw

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. 35 sayings from Ernest Hemingway

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities. 32 sayings from Henry Ford

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. 3 other sayings from Mary McLeod Bethune

Life is to be entered upon with courage. 19 sayings from Alexis de Tocqueville

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. 32 quotes from Henry Ford

What we play is life. 4 more quotes from Louis Armstrong

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. 50 wisdom & wit from Napoleon Bonaparte

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. 7 other quotes from Jorge Luis Borges

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 4 wisdom & wit from Ben Hogan

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. 7 sayings from Marcus Garvey

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. 31 views from Mae West

Life is but thought. 6 more quotes from Sara Teasdale

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. 22 quotes from William Feather

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead. 11 more sayings from Lucille Ball

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. 22 other views from William Feather

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. 3 more quotes from Karen Horney

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. 2 quotes from Grandma Moses

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. 2 other thoughts from Elizabeth Kenny

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. 4 other quotes from Truman Capote

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. 6 quotes from O. Henry

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. 3 other wisdom & wit from Karen Horney

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. 4 wisdom & wit from Jim Henson

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. 24 thoughts from Henri Frederic Amiel

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' 13 quotes from Sydney J. Harris

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? 23 wisdom & wit from T. S. Eliot

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. 26 quotes from Theodor Adorno

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. 2 thoughts from Grandma Moses

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy. 2 wisdom & wit from Florence Scovel Shinn

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. 21 other wisdom & wit from Leo Tolstoy

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. 30 wisdom & wit from Eleanor Roosevelt

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education. 100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. 103 other quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

The lie is a condition of life. 103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. 100 sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. 29 more wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. 29 thoughts from Groucho Marx

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. 100 other views from Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. 100 more views from Oscar Wilde

There is more to life than increasing its speed. 100 more quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were. 33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

To know nothing is the happiest life. 15 wisdom & wit from Desiderius Erasmus

Unbeing dead isn't being alive. 13 views from e. e. cummings

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. 103 more quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

What you get is a living, what you give is a life. 2 more quotes from Lillian Gish

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is. 100 other views from Oscar Wilde

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Where there is love there is life. 100 other quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Without music, life would be a mistake. 103 other views from Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. 36 other quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. 29 wisdom & wit from Pablo Picasso

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. 36 more views from Theodore Roosevelt

Art is the proper task of life. 103 quotes from Friedrich Nietzsche

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 29 quotes from Pablo Picasso

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike. 36 sayings from Theodore Roosevelt

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself. 9 quotes from John Dewey

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. 100 wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living? 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? 103 wisdom & wit from Friedrich Nietzsche

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. 103 views from Friedrich Nietzsche

I do not regret one moment of my life. 6 quotes from Lillie Langtry

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. 5 more wisdom & wit from Michael Landon

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. 30 other sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. 100 other wisdom & wit from Oscar Wilde

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life! 30 views from Eleanor Roosevelt

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. 30 sayings from Eleanor Roosevelt

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. 100 more thoughts from Oscar Wilde

In married life three is company and two none. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. 100 more sayings from Oscar Wilde

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves? 103 more views from Friedrich Nietzsche

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. 28 more thoughts from Napoleon Hill

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. 100 quotes from Oscar Wilde

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. 100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. 103 sayings from Friedrich Nietzsche

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. 100 sayings from Oscar Wilde

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. 100 other views from Oscar Wilde

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. 100 more quotes from Oscar Wilde

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 17 sayings from John Lennon

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. 30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him. 29 quotes from Groucho Marx

My life is my message. 100 more sayings from Mahatma Gandhi

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. 36 more quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause. 36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead. 100 views from Oscar Wilde

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. 12 more wisdom & wit from James Allen

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. 39 thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. 52 sayings from Albert Camus

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? 52 quotes from Albert Camus

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious. 57 thoughts from Will Rogers

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. 32 more thoughts from Martin Luther

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. 78 quotes from Voltaire

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. 98 quotes from Mark Twain

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. 32 quotes from William Blake

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. 14 sayings from Laurence Sterne

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. 9 views from Charles M. Schulz

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. 22 quotes from Jimi Hendrix

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of. 11 views from Bruce Lee

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. 52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. 22 views from Jimi Hendrix

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life. 22 other quotes from Jimi Hendrix

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life. 39 other quotes from Robert Louis Stevenson

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. 10 wisdom & wit from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. 52 views from George Eliot

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. 2 thoughts from Corita Kent

Life is too short to work so hard. 5 other quotes from Vivien Leigh

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. 98 other views from Mark Twain

May you live all the days of your life. 19 views from Jonathan Swift

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. 74 thoughts from Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. 4 wisdom & wit from Marie Curie

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. 39 other thoughts from Robert Louis Stevenson

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. 98 views from Mark Twain

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. 11 thoughts from Bruce Lee

The less routine the more life. 13 other views from Amos Bronson Alcott

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. 22 views from Jimi Hendrix

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. 39 wisdom & wit from Robert Louis Stevenson

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. 98 other quotes from Mark Twain

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. 12 quotes from William Cowper

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can. 57 more wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die. 52 sayings from Albert Camus

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. 98 thoughts from Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. 98 sayings from Mark Twain

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. 52 quotes from Albert Camus

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. 74 more sayings from Winston Churchill

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. 57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art. 22 views from Jimi Hendrix

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. 21 other thoughts from Dale Carnegie

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death. 78 views from Voltaire

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. 32 more wisdom & wit from Martin Luther