Quotes
Quotes about Life
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue--you sell him a whole new life.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
I never did a day's work in my life; it was all fun.
Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature...is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
In death the many become one; in life the one become many.
A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
