Quotes
Quotes about Life
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds and watch their renewal of lifeâthis is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
Man's life does not commence in the womb and never ends in the grave.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "try to be a little kinder." -Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
