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Short Life Quotes

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

William Shakespeare

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

Michel de Montaigne

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Deep Life Quotes

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Albert Einstein

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Albert Einstein

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Mohandas Gandhi

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational Life Quotes

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Mohandas Gandhi

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Henry David Thoreau

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

George Bernard Shaw

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

More Life Quotes

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long life.

Bryant H. McGill

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

Adlai E. Stevenson

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Henry David Thoreau

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

Benjamin Franklin

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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