Quotes about Life

This was Miss Blanche's daughter? She was a mess. A beautiful mess.

death, she still was the most

You know, for all a man's bravado, he needs a woman in his life.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness

A day is a more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleezy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter ste.

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.