Quotes about life
life crush sweet
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame? Orison Swett Marden
life oil medicine
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.
life simple simplicity
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
life nature men
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
life stars flower
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.
life character careers
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
life taste waste
A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste! Omar Khayyam
life night thinking
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
life wise wisdom
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
life sorry heart
Ah Love! could you and I with him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire Would we not shatter it to bits-and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire?
life departed may
You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
life moving night
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
life wind water
I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
life ocean existence
Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings. Oliver Wendell Holmes
life enemy littles
Cupid "the little greatest enemy."
life art past
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
life love-is keys
Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
life hope expectations
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
life stories existence
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. Oliver Sacks
life anatomy-and-physiology disease
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
life color skins
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
life atheism had-enough
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
life ethos sides
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
life opportunity half
I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
life constitution life-is
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
life dwelling-place cells
We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare dwelling-place, we have adjusted ourselves to it, and made it tolerably comfortable for the little while we are to be confined in it.
life existence complaints
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
life growing-up race
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify nothing in the intellectual life of the race.
life art pain
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
life character done
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
life gymnastics thinking
I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same. Olga Korbut
life going-away should
Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay. Octave Mirbeau
life adversity pet
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. O. Henry