Quotes
Quotes about Life
Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?
I never made a mistake in grammar but once in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.
There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall; Did I not see, did I not feel. That One Great Spirit governs all. O Heaven, permit that I may lie Where o'er my corse green branches wave; And those who from life's tumults fly With kindred feelings press my grave.
The greed of gain has no time or limit to its capaciousness. Its one object is to produce and consume. It has pity neither for beautiful nature nor for living human beings. It is ruthlessly ready without a moment's hesitation to crush beauty and life.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. -David Searls.
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
However boldly their warm blood was spilt, Their life was shame, their epitaph was guilt; And this they knew and felt, at least the one, The leader of the hand he had undone,-- Who, born for better things, had madly set His life upon a cast, which linger'd yet.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Hold him alone truly fortunate who has ended his life in happy well-being.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebens schonste Kraft Ermattet endlich.]
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
