If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
– George Eliot
If we never experience the chill of a dark winter, it is very unlikely that we will ever cherish the warmth of a bright summer’s day. Nothing stimulates our appetite for the simple joys of life more than the starvation caused by sadness or desperation.
– Anthon St Maarten
If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life.
– Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.
– Ann Landers
If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you started.
– Marcus Garvey
If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.
– Bryant McGill
If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.
– Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
– Sigmund Freud, his essay on war & death
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things.
– Albert Einstein
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
– Ernest Hemingway
In the end the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.
– Fritjof Capra
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
– Andrew Brown
Isn't it funny how one minute life can be such a struggle, and the next minute you're just driving real fast, swerving back and forth across the road
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters.
– Amit Ray
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted in the field without becoming part of an edifice. (El Filibusterismo)
– Dr. Jose P. Rizal
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
– Gaius Julius Caesar
It is in your moments of decision that your life is shaped. Develop your decision-making muscles.
– Anthony Robbins
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.
– Ben Stein
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
– Charles Dudley Warner
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
– Henry James
Jesus' ministry was clearly defined, and the alternatives to the illusion and temptations of the desert were spelled out. A choice was made--life abundant, full, and free for all. Make no mistake about it, the day that choice was made, Jesus became suspect. That day in the temple he sealed the fate already prepared for him. How was the world to understand one who rejected an offer of power and control
– Joan B. Campbell
Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.
– Charles Scribner, Jr.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
– Albert Schweitzer
