Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.
Sylvester StalloneOur emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Sir Thomas MoreYou are uneasy; you never sailed with me before, I see (in James Parton's Life of Jackson)
Andrew JacksonWe are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
William OslerThat we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
John BergerIt is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Ben SteinIf you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Rene DescartesTo live each moment to the full, because the moment never comes again [on her life philosophy... deep!]
Shabnam ParyaniYou take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica JongGreater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life (On Harold Macmillan sacking 7 cabinet members)
Jeremy ThorpeThis is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheA man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
Christopher MorleyNo young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money...
Orison Swett MardenTrust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda MeirThe best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life (Econometrica)
J R Hicks"Weed's part of my life. It's just always been with me."
Melanie BlattRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing
Laurens Van Der PostAbove all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation.
Kofi AnnanI suspect that in another life I attended the Spanish Inquisition as a volunteer.
Sandi ToksvigWhen I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
Neve CampbellIt is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David HumeFrom the first dawn of life unto the grave,
Poor womankind's in every state a slave.
('The Emulation' - 1703)
Sarah EgertonLife is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais NinIf you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
Jimmy CliffI try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.
Keanu ReevesLiterature is a defense against the attacks of life. It says to life: 'You can't deceive me. I know your habits, foresee and enjoy watching all your reactions, and steal your secret by involving you in cunning obstructions that halt your normal flow.'
Cesare PaveseThe Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
Paul DaviesA novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul BellowI'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they? [High Novelist]
Nick HornbyYour only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.
Richard BachThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
Adlai StevensonProbably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
Emo PhilipsBe regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustav FlaubertWe are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William JamesTopographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
Henry MillerAs a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.
Gresham BarrettMorris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
David LodgeThe idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John GardnerThe meaning of life is that it stops.
Franz KafkaIf you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second. [Just taste like salt to me! - Ed]
Eleanor ClarkWatching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself
Richard HammondI had a hard time dealing with what I wanted to do with my life.
Michael EastonThe true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson HendersonEvery day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
Lord ByronAs crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
Rachel CarsonA man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles DarwinMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
Joseph AddisonA big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
Suze Orman
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