Life Quotes

"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us"

Learned Hand, Judge

"Knowledge is the life of the mind"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth"

Patti Smith, Musician

"I have a daughter who's 11 years old. Maybe she'll grow up independent and really really heavy and become a movie star and she'll play me in my life story"

Patti Smith, Musician

"Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"Life has a higher end, than to be amused"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

"My life isn't that dramatic. My dad really loves me, he just can't talk on the phone. He's too crippled and shy, and that's almost harder. He's there and he loves me, and I try and try and try, it's just impossible to have a relationship"

Joey Lauren Adams, Actress

"I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him"

Shirley MacLaine, Actress

"After all, we are not children. It's time we planned our life"

Moshe Dayan, Soldier

"These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage"

Learned Hand, Judge

"From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance"

Christopher Morley, Author

"Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Have an earnestness for death and you will have life"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it"

Christopher Morley, Author

"At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead"

Barack Obama, President

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential"

Barack Obama, President

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived"

Michelangelo, Artist

"I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible"

Michelangelo, Artist

"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life"

George W. Bush, President

"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late"

Agatha Christie, Writer

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