Life Sayings & Quotes
These life sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. - Rachel Louise Carson
Love is the river of life in the world. - Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie
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. - Wallace Stevens
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as a man is free to attempt to survive by any random means, as a parasite, a moocher or a looter, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment, so he is free to seek his happiness in any irrational fraud, any whim, any delusion, any mindless escape from reality, but not free to succeed at it beyond the range of the moment not to escape the consequences. - Ayn Rand
Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. - Ashleigh Brilliant
Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition. - Andrew Carnegie
While I have an almost insatiable craving for knowledge, I believe death to be the final and perhaps greatest teacher, the one that provides the key to the ultimate questions life has never answered. In my darkest hours I have been consoled by the thought that death at least is a payment for the answer of life's haunting secrets. - Morris B. Abram
It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. - Carl Gustav Jung
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness. - Joseph Addison
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting. - Aldous Huxley
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas
You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners. - Lillian Gish
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well. - Pierre de Coubertin
Every good citizen makes his country's honour his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it. - Andrew Jackson
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. - Anatole Broyard
People should tell their children what life is all about, it's about work. - Lauren Bacall
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! - Douglas William Jerrold
Life is like a camel: you can make it do anything except back up. - Marcelene Cox
If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. - Oscar Wilde
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive. - Elbert Green Hubbard