Quotes about life
life reading book
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. Ralph Waldo Emerson
life girl sweet
The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.
life-is-too-short humanity waste
Life is too short to waste.
life hands storm
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....
life positive girl
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.
life motivation firsts
The first thing a great person does is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.
life shoes fiber
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the show fiber has passed into your body.
life men literature
Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
life sweet men
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.
life men faces
Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.
life intelligent men
A man cannot utter two or three sentences without disclosing to intelligent ears precisely where he stands in life and thought, whether in the kingdom of the senses and the understanding, or in that of ideas and imagination, or in the realm of intuitions and duty.
life weather savages
Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.
life dark mind
Life is too short to waste . . . 'Twill soon be dark; Up! mind thine own aim, and God speed the mark!
life doe chance
He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame in not 'studying a profession', for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances.
life art hands
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
life life-is
Life is a search after power.
life men self
The life of man is a self-evolving circle.
life ambition night
We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.
life music stars
The House ...She lays her beams in music, In music every ore, To the candence of the whirling world Which dances round the sun- That so they shall not be displaced By lapses or by wars, But for the love of happy souls Out live the newest stars.
life life-changing
Life only avails, not the having lived.
life men vision
What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.
life art paralysis
Life too near paralyses art.
life expression moral
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
life eye men
A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.
life valuable
We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
life men design
Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the incarnation and nutriment of their design.
life believe men
Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.
life secret identity
Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.
life sleep night
The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.
life men skills
A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.
life live-life waste
Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
life car pay
Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there.
life life-is surprise
Life is a series of surprises.