Life Quotes A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. Richard Bach 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. E. B. White I do not regret one moment of my life. Lillie Langtry I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth I love life because what more is there. Anthony Hopkins I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living. Ursula Andress I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost It is not length of life, but depth of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family. Philip Green Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. Josh Billings Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. Antoine de SaintExupery Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote 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. Jose Ortega y Gasset Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry Life is but thought. Sara Teasdale Life is half spent before we know what it is. George Herbert Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. Miguel Angel Ruiz Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. Abraham Cahan Life is never easy for those who dream. Robert James Waller Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz Life is wasted on the living. Douglas Adams Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou Life must be lived as play. Plato
Life well spent is long. Leonardo da Vinci Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. Mel Brooks May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Arthur Miller 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. Cary Grant My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. Hugh Leonard Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. Harvey Fierstein Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. Brendan Gill Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. Socrates Only a few things are really important. Marie Dressler People living deeply have no fear of death. Anais Nin The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. Marcus Aurelius The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. H. L. Mencken The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. William Lyon Phelps The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. William James The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. E. M. Forster The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.Henry David Thoreau The purpose of life is a life of purpose. Robert Byrne The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Carl Jung There is no wealth but life. John Ruskin There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. Robert Louis Stevenson This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. William James To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Henry David Thoreau
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily Dickinson Unbeing dead isn't being alive. e. e. cummings Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. 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. George Bernard Shaw Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. Barbara Kingsolver We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it. Lauryn Hill We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. Max de Pree What we play is life. Louis Armstrong When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'. Erma Bombeck When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. Mark Twain While there's life, there's hope. Marcus Tullius Cicero Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. Erich Fromm You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. Albert Camus Your life is what your thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
Wisdom Quotes A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. Nelson Mandela A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katharine Graham A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. Francis Bacon A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. Moliere
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Phil Jackson Be happy. It's one way of being wise. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius Cleverness is not wisdom. Euripides Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. Jim Rohn Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspirational Quotes Believe you can and you're halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. Wallis Simpson Give light and people will find the way. Ella Baker God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him. Jim Elliot God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man. Arthur Young Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom. Friedrich Schiller Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.Henry Ward Beecher Great hopes make great men. Thomas Fuller Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. Jim Rohn Happiness is the natural flower of duty. Phillips Brooks Hope is a waking dream. Aristotle
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Mohandas Gandhi It is by acts and not by ideas that people live. Harry Emerson Fosdick It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.Aristotle Onassis There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. Han Suyin Think with your whole body. Taisen Deshimaru Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. Plato We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan When deeds speak, words are nothing. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon With self-discipline most anything is possible. Theodore Roosevelt You change your life by changing your heart. Max Lucado Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. Nido Qubein
Funny Quotes Every man's dream is to be able to sink into the arms of a woman without also falling into her hands. Jerry Lewis Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P. J. O'Rourke Food is an important part of a balanced diet. Fran Lebowitz Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. Rodney Dangerfield I intend to live forever. So far, so good. Steven Wright I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. Mae West If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question? Lily Tomlin Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. Ronald Reagan The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. Natalie Wood There are only three things women needs in life: food, water, and compliments. Chris Rock Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein Weather forecast for tonight: dark. George Carlin
Love Quotes A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name. Andre Breton Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. George Bernard Shaw Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. Albert Einstein Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid
If you want to be loved, be lovable. Ovid Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.' Erich Fromm It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion. Javan Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. Peter Ustinov Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself. Andre Breton Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you. Loretta Young Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston The best proof of love is trust. Joyce Brothers True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Friendship Quotes A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert Hubbard A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristotle Never explain - your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. Elbert Hubbard The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. Elbert Hubbard A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. Arnold H. Glasow
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. George Washington An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Buddha Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus Friends are born, not made. Henry B. Adams The only way to have a friend is to be one. Ralph Waldo Emerson True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde
DAD QUOTES A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. Michael Reagan Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me? Dionne Warwick I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. Hedy Lamarr It is a wise father that knows his own child. William Shakespeare The most important influence in my childhood was my father. DeForest Kelley You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Robert Frost
NATURE QUOTES All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. Thomas Browne Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gerard De Nerval I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. Aristotle In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. Aristotle Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. Roger Miller The poetry of the earth is never dead. John Keats
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations. David Gerrold
Women Quotes I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. Marilyn Monroe I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved. B. R. Ambedkar If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious. Alphonse Karr If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. George Bernard Shaw It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. Barbra Streisand Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. Francis Bacon Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. H. L. Mencken Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. Emma Bonino Women are the real architects of society. Cher Women don't realize how powerful they are. Judith Light Women have a predestination to suffering. Bela Lugosi Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. Louisa May Alcott Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. H. L. Mencken Women hear rhythm differently than men. Elvis Costello Women hold up half the sky. Mao Tse-Tung ENVIRONMENTAL QUOTES Every day is Earth Day. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. - Thomas Fuller In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
Modern technology - Owes ecology - An apology. I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find. When the soil disappears, the soul disappears. - Ymber Delecto
I believe we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried - but they wanted cash. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. You are getting old when you enjoy remembering things more than doing them. Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. There is only one perfect child in the world and every mother has it. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. Oscar Wilde
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Stars can’t shine if there is no darkness. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Never live life unnoticed . Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.
