Quotes about life
life success nature
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. John Stuart Mill
life party order
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
life evil accountability
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
life earth good-things
While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here. John Selden
life-is-good evil life-is
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good. John Shelby Spong
life wings long
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. James Joseph Sylvester
life ties soul
Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of acquaintance confined to occasional calls upon one another; but that is now at an end; they are drawn together and are constantly becoming more and more intimately related and connected by a thousand fresh ties, and we may confidently look forward to a time when they shall form but one body with one soul.
life reality race
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. James Joyce
life teacher life-is
Life is the great teacher.
life distance past
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a verb in the past tense.
life art believe
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.
life fall snow
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
life spiritual mistake
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
life-is
A day is only a day. But a life is only a life. James Richardson
life war battle
Wut 's words to them whose faith an' truth On war's red techstone rang true metal; Who ventered life an' love an' youth For the gret prize o' death in battle? James Russell Lowell
life fate jest
Life seems a jest of Fate's contriving.
life stars heart
Not as all other women are Is she that to my soul is dear; Her glorious fancies come from far, Beneath the silver evening star, And yet her heart is ever near.
life humble love-is
True love is but a humble, low born thing, And hath its food served up in earthenware; It is a thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world.
life men one-direction
Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.
life death night
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
life-lesson thinking sorrow
The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
life real dust
Life is constantly weighing us in very sensitive scales, and telling every one of us precisely what his real weight is to the last grain of dust.
life beautiful creativity
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
life ocean men
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
life happiness success
Folks never understand the folks they hate.
life strong regret
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life. James Goldsmith
life men unique
Speech gave man a unique power to lead a double life, he could say one thing and do another. James Harvey Robinson
life death fear
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes
life men sorrow
What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! Laurence Sterne
life change giving
The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.
life eye simple
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
life pain believe
The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer. Laura Hillenbrand
life cash moral
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. Larry Flynt