Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 24)

"While we are postponing, life speeds by"

"Life is warfare"

"Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"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, President

"We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child"

Ronald Reagan, President

"My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out"

Ronald Reagan, President

"The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!"

Gail Sheehy, Writer

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"One must act in painting as in life, directly"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

"I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not"

Robert G. Ingersoll, Lawyer

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication"

Lord Byron, Poet

"The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Its very certain the desire of life prolongs it"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life"

Lord Byron, Poet

"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it"

Lord Byron, Poet

"For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Every 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 Byron, Poet

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray"

Lord Byron, Poet

"Fiction is life with the dull bits left out"

Clive James, Author

"A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all"

Clive James, Author

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

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