Life Quotes - Page 22

• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Positive, Beautiful

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Goal, Self Improvement

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  One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Love, Kindness, Women

  Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Time, Godly, July

  Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)”, p.31, Academic Resources Corp

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• We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Happiness, Hands

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Growth, Needs

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• Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Book, Logical, Midst

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• Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

  Christopher Morley

  Travel, Men, Insightful

  Thunder on the Left ch. 14 (1925)

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• The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Inspiring, Women

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  To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" (1891)

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• For the Warrior, there is no such thing as an impossible love.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Warrior, Impossible

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• He needs both patience and speed.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, Needs, Speed

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• He too shares his world with the people he loves.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiration, People, World

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• There's nothing you can do that can't be done.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Done, Beatles Love

  "Song: 'All You Need Is Love'". 1967.

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• Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Haste Makes Waste, Leisure, Housekeeping

  Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.103, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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• Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

  Alexander Pope

  Kings, Ambition, Pride

  'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 1

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• No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity.

  Lilian Whiting

  Motivational, Morning, Spring

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• To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Tasks, Honest

  "Across the Plains" by Robert Louis Stevenson, (Ch. XII), 1892.

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• My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

  Robert Breault

  Book, Understanding, Quests

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Real, Too Late, World

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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• Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

  Robert Breault

  Journey, Might, Sides

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• Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Order, Wind, Everyday

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• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

  George Santayana

  Anxiety, Honor, Shapes

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• Real life is in love, laughter, and work.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Laughter, Real, Real Life

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1914). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd moments, and if you think you're going to have those odd moments again, then it makes life wonderful and have a meaning.

  Anthony Burgess

  Mean, Thinking, Littles

  Anthony Burgess (2013). “One Hand Clapping”, p.91, Profile Books

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