Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 6)

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"We forge the chains we wear in life"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Honesty prospers in every condition of life"

Friedrich Schiller, Dramatist

"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Live the life you've dreamed"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"What is called genius is the abundance of life and health"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose"

Willa Cather, Author

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself"

Leo Tolstoy, Novelist

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent"

Samuel Johnson, Author

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