Life Quotes

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give... .Sir Winston Churchill. 

Let us endeavor to live, that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry... .Mark Twain. 

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from... .Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. 

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us... .Marianne Williamson. 

And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be... .Grandma Moses. 

Our life is what our thoughts make it... .Marcus Aurelius Antonius. 

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough... .Benjamin Franklin. 

What consumes your mind, controls your life... .Creed. 

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced... Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice... .Cherokee. 

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself... .Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life... .Unknown. 

If you spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live... .Lin Yu Tang. 

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life -- it goes on... .Robert Frost. 

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit... .Albert Schweitzer. 

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet... .Emily Dickinson. 

Don't ever give up. The greatest things accomplished in life are those you strive for. Never give up hope. Remember amateurs built the ark and pros built the titanic... .Unknown. 

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself... .George Bernard Shaw. 

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such... .Henry Miller. 

There comes that mysterious meeting in life when someone acknowledges who we are and what we can be, igniting the circuits of our highest potential... .Rusty Berkus. 

The adventure of life is to learn.

The purpose of life is to grow.

The nature of life is to change.

The challenge of life is to overcome.

The essence of life is to care.

The opportunity of life is to serve.

The secret of life is to dare.

The spice of life is to befriend.

The beauty of life is to give.

The joy of life is to love... .William Arthur Ward.

My favorite quote is "Life is too short to be little," written by Disraeli. Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in a year?s time, will be forgotten by us and by everybody. No, let us devote our life to worthwhile actions and feelings, to great thoughts, real affections and enduring undertakings... .Andre Maurois.