All life quotes

Laughter is the sun which drives the winter form the human face.

Victor Hugo

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

Ikkyu Sojun

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

George Meredith

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

Ann Plato

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood, all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Albert Pike

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Albert Camus

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

George Bernard Shaw

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

George Carlin

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

George Santayana

Life is for laughing, loving and living.

Ed Foreman

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

Helen Keller

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.

Pliny The Elder

It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest.

Og Mandino

Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

Indian Proverb

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

Alex Swann

I believe that man will not merely endure, he will prevail.
He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
The poet's, the writer's duty is to write about these things.

William Faulkner

Cats and monkeys, monkeys and cats, all human life is there.

Henry James

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Jean Toomer

My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. '.

Forrest Gump

Life is a bit like a piece of fruit. When you take a big bite out of it, if you can just spit out the seeds without obsessing about how they've ruined the experience for you you'll find that there's a lot of delightful juice left in there for you to suck out and a whole lot left to chew on.

Chuck Brown

Life's most persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ignorance is not bliss,
ignorance is impotence,
it is fear,
it is cruelty,
it is all the things that make for unhappiness.

Ingrid Holtby

It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

W. C. Fields

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

Jean de la Bruyere