Quotes about Life

As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

We live a short period of time in this world, but we live it according to the laws of eternal life.

I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever At the bottom of my dream.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!

If I should sell my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly;

Being is the great explainer.