Quotes
Quotes about Life
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be!
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
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.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.
Life is like a library owned by an author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable crop in the second half.
A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. [Luke 12:15]
The shriek was followed by another, louder and yet more agonizing..for once started upon that journey, the hog never came back. One by one the men hooked up the hogs and slit their throats. There was a line of hogs with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away.. until at last each vanished into a huge vat of boiling water (some still alive). The hogs were so innocent. They came so very trustingly. They were so very human in their protests. They had done nothing to deserve it. in the book THE JUNGLE.
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
