Life Quotes About Living & Perspective – Page 2 | GloryQuotes

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Friedrich Nietzsche

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

William Hazlitt

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

Abraham Lincoln

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Marcus Aurelius

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Henry Ward Beecher

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

John Updike

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

W. Somerset Maugham

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

George Bernard Shaw

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Theodore Roosevelt

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

George Bernard Shaw

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein