Quotes about life
life exercise ideas
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor. Joseph Addison
life mirth thee
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
life choices causes
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all our unhappiness.
life men literature
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
life wise strong
When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault to love; The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise, Sink in the soft captivity together.
life dream hope
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
life respect passion
Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
life happiness men
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
life ideas giving
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
life friday sunday
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
life hope philosophy
The first duty of a man is to think for himself Jose Marti
life-lesson doors bread-of-life
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
life moving-forward done
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. Jose Ortega y Gasset
life collision series
Life is a series of collisions with the future.
life path burning
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
life-is fame boundaries
Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.
life struggle answers
Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.
life success men
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.
life life-is blank
Life is fired at us point blank.
life unemployment unemployed
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
life people side-dishes
There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.
life mean empty
Life means to have something definite to do-a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
life men thinking
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket. Jose Bergamin
life-and-death lacking has-beens
Life and death have been lacking in my life. Jorge Luis Borges
life literature tolerable
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
life reality probable-cause
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
life doe granted
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
life time rivers
Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
life cities people
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
life giving laughing
But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away. Joni Mitchell
life grief sorrow
Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.
life wise looks
You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it. Jonathan Tropper
life alive
Why take life seriously? No one gets out alive anyways. Kevin Smith