Quotes
Quotes about Life
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. -Ellen Glasgow.
That which happens in life is not as important as how you accept it. Walter Brueggeman -Unknown.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walkingâone sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so.
We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.
Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life.
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.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.
Freedom Know this, that every man is free To choose his life and what he'll be. For this eternal truth is given, God will force no man to heaven. He'll call, persuade, direct aright, Bless with wisdom, love, and light; In nameless ways be good and kind, But never force the human mind.
Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life.
Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
I like nonsenseâit wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
