Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage"

Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

Jose Rizal, Writer

"Business is the salt of life"

Voltaire, Writer

"A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living"

Rudolf Steiner, Philosopher

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else"

Woody Allen, Director

"Life loves the liver of it"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"There is more to life than increasing its speed"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

"We love death. The U.S. loves life. That is the difference between us two"

Osama bin Laden, Criminal

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living"

Cicero, Philosopher

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough"

Meister Eckhart, Philosopher

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country"

Texas Guinan, Businessman

"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, Dramatist

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up"

Paul Castellano, Criminal

"Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself"

Alexandre Dumas, Dramatist

"Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry"

Democritus, Philosopher

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"We forge the chains we wear in life"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Wonder if there is life on another planet? Let's suppose there is. Suppose further, that only one star in a trillion has a planet that could support life. If that were the case, then there would be at least 100 million planets that harbored life"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"See into life, don't just look at it"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty"

George Byron, Poet

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want"

Ben Stein, Actor

"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream"

Rene Magritte, Artist

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain, Author

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