Quotes about Life
The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
— Phillips Brooks
Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.
— Pope John Paul II
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
— Publilius Syrus
Man's life is short; and therefore an honorable death is his immortality.
— Publilius Syrus
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be.
— Og Mandino
The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.
— Oscar Wilde
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no man of Nature's worth In the circle of the earth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the measure of life is revealed in the quality of our relationships: with God, our families, our fellow men." - A Perfect Day by Richard Paul Evans
— Richard Paul Evans
In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.
— Henry Ward Beecher