life quotes

• There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. (Maya Angelou) [life/being]
• At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice. (Maya Angelou) [life/choice]
• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. (Hannah Arendt) [death/life/human]
• We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. (Hannah Arendt) [human/activities/life]
• If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are. (Hannah Arendt) [generation/life/question/question]
• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -- knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live. ( Aristotle) [danger/give/life]
• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. ( Aristotle) [more/life/art]
• Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals. ( Aristotle) [life]
• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds. ( Aristotle) [life/weakness/life]
• The energy of the mind is the essence of life. ( Aristotle) [mind/essence/life]
• It is better to rise from life as from a banquet -- neither thirsty nor drunken. ( Aristotle) [life]
• The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ( Aristotle) [life]
• They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. ( Aristotle) [life/think/more/feeling]
• What we play is life. (Louis Armstrong) [life]
• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday. (Thomas Arnold) [life/age/youth/age]
• When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. (Antonin Artaud) [speak/life/life/reach]
• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. (Antonin Artaud) [genius/people/life]
• You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone. (Antonin Artaud) [life/life/normal/men]
• Tragedy on the stage is no longer enough for me, I shall bring it into my own life. (Antonin Artaud) [stage/life]
• If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life. (Arthur Ashe) [god/god/life]
• From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. (Arthur Ashe) [give/life]
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Red Auerbach) [music/dust/life]
• I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. (Lauren Bacall) [think/life/face]
• Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. (Richard Bach) [life]
• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. (Francis Bacon) [life/habit/willpower/agreeable]
• Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. (Francis Bacon) [life/age/moment]
• There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. (Pearl Bailey) [life/knowledge]
• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person. If we are not capable of this examination, we may yet become one of the most distinguished and monumental failures in the history of nations. (James Baldwin) [life/human/look/achievements]
• We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real. (James Baldwin) [state/take/life/question]
• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone. (Tallulah Bankhead) [life/water]
• The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. (John Barrymore) [life/women/time]

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