Life quotes

Found 1416 thoghts of life quotes

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...

George Bernard Shaw

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Morrie Schwartz

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

Erich Fromm

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

Orison Swett Marden

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

Tom Hanks

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

What is life? It is the 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's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Albert Schweitzer

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Charles M. Schulz

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

charlotte bronte

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

William Faulkner

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw

Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

O. Henry

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

Fran Lebowitz

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Thomas H. Huxley

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli
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