Quotes about life
life-is-hard life-is harder
Life is hard already. Why make it harder? Sara Shepard
life brave victory
Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories that seem so splendid Are never really won. Sara Teasdale
life wise wisdom
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
life years flying
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
life beautiful nature
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
life-changing way needs
When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know? Sandra Oh
life birthday leadership
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman
life motivational success
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
life farewell men
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.
life eye mind
I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,- His eyes are in his mind.
life flower love-is
Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!
life love-you heaven
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.
life fashion heart
And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.
life heart way
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
life heart feelings
To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.
life brain poison
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
life summer flower
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies! Samuel Johnson
life wise eye
In life's last scene what prodigies surprise, Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow, And Swift expires a driveller and a show.
life drama law
The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
life blessing use
Reflect that life, like every other blessing, Derives its value from its use alone.
life men hours
Learn that the present hour alone is man's.
life men spheres
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.
life men complaining
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
life-is thoughts-of-death whole
The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.
life disappointment grief
The main of life is composed of small incidents and petty occurrences; of wishes for objects not remote, and grief for disappointments of no fatal consequence....
life waste wasting-time
Life, however short, is made still shorter by waste of time.
life ease action
Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions or elegant enjoyments. The greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities, in the performance of daily duties, in the removal of small inconveniences, in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small obstacles and frequent interruption.
life luxury office
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.
life-is-short men wealth
Life is short. The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better.
life fashion jewels
Jewellery takes people's minds off your wrinkles.
life essence redemption
After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption. Wallace Stevens
life thinking imagination
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
life beauty mind
Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.