Quotes
Quotes about Life
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions--the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is ... impossible.
We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it.
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
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.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
