Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 37)

"Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind"

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, Poet

"Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life"

St. Jerome, Saint

"Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death"

William Blake, Poet

"I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life"

Dyan Cannon, Actress

"In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared"

Buddha, Leader

"Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death"

Buddha, Leader

"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance"

Buddha, Leader

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows"

Buddha, Leader

"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue"

Buddha, Leader

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life"

Buddha, Leader

"To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth"

Kurt Vonnegut, Author

"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

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