Life Quotes

Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner

Dreams are necessary to life.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
Frida Kahlo

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
John Dewey

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

The organized workers of America, free in their industrial life, conscious partners in production, secure in their homes and enjoying a decent standard of living, will prove the finest bulwark against the intrusion of alien doctrines of government.
John L. Lewis

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
Marilyn Manson

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
Marie Curie

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
Maynard James Keenan

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
Tom Robbins

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
William Booth

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
Carl Rogers

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
Dame Agatha Christie

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
O. J. Simpson

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Milan Kundera

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Thomas Carlyle

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

Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
Humphrey Bogart

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I think I could sing and shear a few sheep at the same time.
Robert Plant

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Richard P. Feynman

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
Noam Chomsky

Life must be lived as play.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
Dolly Parton

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina Jolie

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.