Life Quotes

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Life is just what happens to you,
while you're busy making other plans.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

David Nicholls (writer)

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Georges Bataille

Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the skeptic.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Whittaker Chambers

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.