Life Quotes
And did you get what you wanted in this life even so? I did. And what is it you wanted? To call myself beloved. To feel myself beloved on the earth.
--Raymond Carver

Don't sacrifice your life to work and ideals. The most important things in life are human relations. I found that out too late.
--Katharinde Susannah Prichard Australian Author

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.
--Everett McKinley Dirksen

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
--Muriel Spark

There is properly no history; only biography.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
--Rainer Maria Rilke

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Biography is the only true history.
--Thomas Carlyle

Every life has a story.
--A&E Biography

If you don't know [your family's] history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.
--Michael Chrichton

Life is just one damned thing after another.
--Elbert Hubbard

Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or culture also becomes a dead people.
--Malcolm X (1925-1965)

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.
--Charles Jones

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go!'
--Maya Angelou

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
--Robert Louis Stevenson

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.
--Kahlil Gibran

You should always learn, with life comes wisdom and with wisdom comes the courage to live your life selflessly. The more you learn about yourself and the experiences surrounding your life the more opportunities you have to make your life better and more fulfilling.
--Amy Candy

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
--Benjamin Disraeli

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
--Leo Buscaglia

We are the hero of our own story.
--Mary McCarthy

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
--Christopher Morley

Life in abundance comes only through great love.
--Elbert Hubbard

Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
--Kahlil Gibran

Life is what happens to you while you're working for your future.
--Unknown

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Life is pain, princess. . . anyone who says differently is selling something.
--Wesley, The Princess Bride

All stories teach us something, and promise us something, whether they're true or invented, legend or fact.
--Stewart O'Nan

History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
--Sir Winston Churchill

Love absolutely everything that ever happens in your life.
--Paul Cantalupo, MD

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey.
--Charles Millhuff

You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
--Joe Lewis

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein

Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Art (is) Long, Life (is) Short
--Hippocrates

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become -- to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
--Pete Rose

Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
--Auntie Mame, by Patrick Dennis

When people search for "Life Quotes" they are often looking for quotes about life. Why do the major search engines only give them hundreds of pages of commercial garbage about Life Insurance Quotes?
--Bill Austin

Friendship
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.
--Dave Tyson Gentry

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief
--Marcus Tullius Cicero

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
--Joseph Addison

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.
--Samuel Johnson

Friendship is the union of spirits, a marriage of hearts, and the bond thereof virtue
--William Penn Fruits of Solitude

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.
--William Penn Treaty with the Indians

That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
--Francis Quareles

I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
--Anais Nin

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
--Francis Marion Crawford

A simple friend thinks the friendship is over when you have an argument. A real friend knows that it's not a friendship until after you've had a fight
--Unknown

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
--Mencius

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life without friendship is like the sky without sun.
--Anonymous

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship--never
--Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.
--Aristotle

A new friendship is like an unripened fruit - it may become either an orange or a lemon
--Emma Stacey

Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
--Eleanor Roosevelt

True friendship is never serene.
--Marquise de Sevigne

Friendship is a special kind of love.
--Unknown

The secret to friendship is being a good listener.
--Unknown

Nothing is great like friendship on earth.
No jewel, no pearl has got it's worth.
No one except a friend can be trusted,
Your life will never ever get rusted.
--Unknown

It is important for our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
--Mignon McLaughlin

When you're looking for a friend don't look for perfection, just look for friendship.
--Unknown

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
--Mark Twain Pudd'nhead Wilson

True friendship starts the moment one person says to another, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!'
--Unknown

Friendship is the golden thread that ties all hearts together
--Unknown

Friendship is a horizon-- which expands whenever we approach it.
--E. R. Hazlip.

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief
--Joseph Addison

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
--George Eliot

Good friends must not always be together; It is the feeling of oneness when distant That proves a lasting friendship.
--Susan P. Schultz