And did you get what you wanted in this life even so?
I did And what is it you wanted?
To call myself beloved To feel myself beloved on the earth.
- Raymond Carver
Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals.
The most important things in life are human relations.
I found that out too late.
- Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author
Life is not a static thing.
The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums,
and those in cemeteries.
- Everett McKinley Dirksen
Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
- Muriel Spark
There is properly no history; only biography.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love
the questions themselves. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it,
live along some distant day into the answer.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
True, we love life, not because we are used to living,
but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love,
but there is also always some reason in madness
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Biography is the only true history.
- Thomas Carlyle
Every life has a story.
- A&E Biography
If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything.
You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
- Michael Chrichton
Life is just one damned thing after another.
- Elbert Hubbard
Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or culture also becomes a dead people.
- Malcolm X (1925-1965)
You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things:
the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
- Charles Jones
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid Let's go!'
- Maya Angelou
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes,
flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you.
Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes,
certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
- Kahlil Gibran
You should always learn, with life comes wisdom and with wisdom comes the courage
to live your life selflessly. The more you learn about yourself and the experiences
surrounding your life the more opportunities you have to make your life better and more fulfilling.
-Amy Candy
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
- Leo Buscaglia
We are the hero of our own story.
- Mary McCarthy
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
- Christopher Morley
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
- Kahlil Gibran
Life is what happens to you while you're working for your future.
- Unknown
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Life is pain, princess. . . anyone who says differently is selling something
- Wesley The Princess Bride
All stories teach us something, and promise us something,
whether they're true or invented, legend or fact
- Stewart O'Nan
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Love absolutely everything that ever happens in your life
- Paul Cantalupo, MD
Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices:
the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with;
and, the laws you choose to obey.
- Charles Millhuff
You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
- Joe Lewis
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Art (is) Long, Life (is) Short
- Hippocrates
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing,
when the one thing needful for a man is to become --
to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me.
What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
- Pete Rose
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
- Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis
When people search for "Life Quotes" they are often looking for quotes about life.
Why do the major search engines only give them hundreds of pages of
commercial garbage about Life Insurance Quotes?
--Bill Austin
|