Famous Life Quotes
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Writing is a dog’s life, but the only life worth living.
Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Matter is, in its constituent elements, the same as spirit; existence is one, however manifold in its phenomena; life is one, however multiform in its evolution.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Friendship is the sweet melody that accompanies us as we dance through life's joys and sorrows.
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome-to be got over.
Pets teach us the value of playfulness and remind us to have fun in life.
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it - three minutes; to collect the data in it - all my life.
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.
Custom is the great guide to human life.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Dogs remind us to approach life with a wagging tail and a playful spirit.
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
A goal without a plan is just a wish. Set a plan, take consistent action, and watch your goals come to life.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Change your habits, change your life. Small steps can lead to big transformations.
Advertising is the life of trade.
Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
Love is not about possession; it's about partnership. It's about standing side by side, supporting and uplifting each other in the journey of life.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The goal of all life is death.
Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
As the first snow falls gently outside, covering the world in a white blanket, the season of reflection begins. Christmas is the moment when we leave behind the hustle and bustle of everyday life, embrace the warmth of community, and feel the power of love. May this festive time be filled with heartfelt moments for you and your loved ones.
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
My life is my message.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
