Life Quotes

Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through.

Nature is man's inorganic body - that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature - i.e., nature is his body - and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

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

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.