Quotes
Quotes about Life
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
October's child is born for woe, And life's vicissitudes must know; But lay on Opal on her breast, And hope will lull those woes to rest.
No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.
There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Seek not for fresher founts afar, Just drop your bucket where you are; And while the ship right onward leaps, Uplift it from the exhaustless deeps. Parch not your life with dry despair; The stream of hope flow everywhere-- So under every sky and star, Just drop your bucket where you are.
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life They of a sudden greet us with a smile.
Opportunities are everywhere. The recession might be drawing to a close, but its continuing legacy is employers' reliance on short-term staff. There may be fewer jobs for life, but there are more jobs in a lifetime.
I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.
It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.
