Category Detail for Life (12 Quotes)

  Author Category Subject Content
1 Samuel Butler General Life Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
2 Helen Keller General Life What a strange life I lead - a kind of Cinderella-Life - half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.
3 Helen Keller General Life We differ, blind and seeing, not in the nature of our handicap, but in the understanding and idealism we put into the art of living. It is only when we put imagination and feeling behind the senses that they attain their full value.
4 Helen Keller General Life Many people never stop to think what life means. They hurry and scurry, they run to and fro upon the earth, exploring the paths that lead nowhere. They waste their energies in futile attempts that gain nothing. It is as if they tried to lift themselves up by their wastebands or to walk on their heads. Not until fate, or Destiny, or some other fellow knocks them out, do they learn to look within themselves for happiness.
5 William James General Life The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
6 H.G. Wells General Life We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.
7 Gandhi General Life There is more to life than increaseing its speed.
8 Theodore Roosevelt General Life Far and away the best prize life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
9 Albert Einstein General Life There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
10 Unknown General Life Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the moments that take our breath away.
11 JoAnn Larsen General Life Few persons set out deliberately to miss the wonder and richness of living, but it is treacherously easy to do it. A postponement here, a side stepping there, a hesitant retreat - and a life may diminish behind a wall of negatives: No, I can’t; I won’t; it can never happen—and the rhetoric goes on in people’s minds, cheating them of opportunities to grow and to find joy… Life is a journey - a process of singing our songs - of finding out who we are and what we may become. We’re all born to unspecified possibilities, and the more we risk, the more we discover about ourselves...
12 Nathaniel Hawthorn Literature Life The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me seemed dull and commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import.