Life
Helen Keller on Life
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all”
Anatole France on Life
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
Marshall McLuhan on Life
“There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”
Louis L’Amour on Contentment
“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.”
Erma Bombeck on Life
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”.
James F. Byrnes on Life
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”
Robert Frost on Work
“The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
Sidney J. Harris on Regret
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
Ian Fleming on Time
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Courage and Persistence
“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
Marie Curie on Science & Understanding
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
Tom Morris on Love and Life
“The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out into the world and doing something original.”
Leo Rosten on Happiness
“Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.”
Thomas Szasz on Life
“The proverb warns that ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
George Harrison on Direction
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.”
E. B. White on Planning
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
Stephen Hawking on Science
“If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.”
Herb Caen on the Past
“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”
Mark Twain on Life
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
Francois de La Rochefoucauld on Faults
“We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.”
Alfred Hitchcock on Media
“Seeing a murder on television… can help work off one’s antagonisms. And if you haven’t any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Intelligence
“It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.”
Robert Louis Stevenson on Life
“Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.”
Woody Allen on Life
“You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.”
John Ruskin Wisdom Quote
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.”