Life quotes

Life

True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

- Kennedy, John F.

It is [the] belief in absolutes, I would hazard, that is the great enemy today of the life of the mind. This may seem a rash proposition. The fashion of the time is to denounce relativism as the root of all evil. But history suggests that the damage done to humanity by the relativist is far less than the damage done by the absolutist - by the fellow who, as Mr. Dooley once put it, "does what he thinks th'Lord wud do if He only knew th'facts in th'case."

- Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

- Anna Quindlen

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

- Vaneigem, Raoul

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

- Graham, Billy

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

- Foreman, George

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

- Robert Browning

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

- Mcgovern, George

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

- Martha Graham

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If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

- Hufstedler, Shirley

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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

- Seneca

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

- Marcinko, Richard

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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

- Luke Rhinehart

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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?

- Lewis, C. S.

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When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.

- Real Live Preacher

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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

- Drummond, Henry

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Here's a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can't touch you if you're out doing something interesting.

- Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

- Will Rogers

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All things may be bought in Rome with money.

- Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

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It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin

- Mayes, Benjamin E.