1,004 private quotes tagged life

“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.” — Carl Jung

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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.” — Aristotle

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“Our life is what our thoughts make it.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!” — Ronald Reagan

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“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'” — Richard Branson

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“The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.” — Robert Frost

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“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” — Bertrand Russell

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“Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.” — Napoleon Hill

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“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” — H. L. Mencken

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“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” — William Shakespeare

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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.” — Oscar Wilde

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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” — Oscar Wilde

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.” — Hubert H. Humphrey

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“The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.” — Socrates

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“The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.” — Dave Barry

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“A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.” — Carl Sandburg

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