Quotes on Life

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,_x000D_ _x000D_ That I would set my life on any chance,_x000D_ _x000D_ To mend, or be rid on't.

This day I breathed first: time is come round,_x000D_ _x000D_ And where I did begin there shall I end;_x000D_ _x000D_ My life is run his compass.

And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe._x000D_ _x000D_ And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;_x000D_ _x000D_ And thereby hangs a tale.

And a man's life's no more than to say "One."

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

For men to tell how human life began_x000D_ _x000D_ Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste_x000D_ _x000D_ Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-_x000D_ _x000D_ And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd_x000D_ _x000D_ The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!

Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others._x000D_ _x000D_ Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. Others have called this deepest quality confidence, and I have referred to trust as the earliest positive psychosocial attitude, but if life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.