The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
– Victor Hugo
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
– Robert A. Heinlein
The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
– Edwin Markham
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
– Theodore Roosevelt
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
– Kahlil Gibran
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
– W. M. Lewis
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
– Heywood
the tragedy of life is not that we die, but is rather, what dies inside a man while he lives.
– Albert Schweitzer
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
– Albert Einstein
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives
The tragedy of man is that the happy moments of life behave like the birds of the forests: They appear and disappear suddenly!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.
– Plato
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
– Smiley Blanton
The unbalanced are more at home with life's twists and turns.
– Leslie Miklosy
The unexamined life is not worth living for man.
– Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
– Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.
– The Divine Pymander
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.
– Felix Adler
The universe is change our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations
The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
– Hanna Holborn Gray
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song
– John Burroughs
The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds -- how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives -- and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
– John Burroughs, Birds and Poets, 1887
