Quotes
Quotes about Life
And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
The trees of life randomly grow but the graves of Arlington are set in rows.
Sing away, ay, sing away, Merry little bird Always gayest of the gay, Though a woodland roundelay You ne'er sung not heard; Though your life from youth to age Passes is a narrow cage.
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the 1000 small uncaring ways.
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.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of lifeâmusic and cats.
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing someof the most important things in life. Unless you give ;yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
Joy comes and goes, hope ebbs and flows Like the wave; Change doth unknit the tranquil strength of men. Love tends life a little grace, A few sad smiles; and then, Both are laid in one cold place, In the grave.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William James.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayvazian -Robert Frost (1874-1963).
Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.
A cheerful life is what the Muses love, A soaring spirit is their prime delight.
'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just); They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words; Which things are corals to cut life upon, Although such trifles.
My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy. - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,
