About Life Quotes
Sucess in life depends primarily upon three things: discovery of who you are, what you can do best, and where you are going.
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening.
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
There are two classes of men called poets. The one cultivates life, the other art,... one satisfies hunger, the other gratifies the palate.
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
One of the most difficult things to do in life is thinking; that's why so few people engage in it.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
If you're black in America, race is a factor in your life. Start with that assumption.
Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you.
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it.
Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s’, I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
