Quotes
Quotes about Life
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.
Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.
In life, we must not look to make ourselves happy, but instead, we must strive to love others and our own happiness will come of thier satisfaction.
The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. -Victor Hugo.
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.
Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.
Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life. -Frederika Bremer.
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. -Henri-Frederic Amiel.
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter. -James Earl Jones.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw.
Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart. -Martin Luther King.
The foolish ofttimes teach the wise: I strain too much this string of life, belike, Meaning to make such music as shall save. Mine eyes are dim now that they see the truth, My strength is waned now that my need is most; Would that I had such help as man must have, For I shall die, whose life was all men's hope.
