Inspirational Quotes on Life

“Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.”

“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.”

“We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.”

“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”

“There is nothing more impotent than words which lie dormant in our brains and have no influence on our lives. ”

“Ah! If our likeness to God does not show itself in trifles, what is there left for it to show itself in? For our lives are all made up of trifles. The great things come three or four of them in the seventy years; the little ones every time the clock ticks.”

“Every life has dark tracks and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.”

“If you love your 'Truths' more than you love people, then you are an out-and-out Pharisee. Nothing less. And you will create condemnation and death in people, rather than 'conviction' and LIFE.”

“As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.”

“As the world is wearie of me so am I of it.”

“Our yesterdays follow us; they constitute our life, and they give character and force and meaning to our present deeds.”

“Men are born to trouble at first, and exercised in it all their days. There is a cry at the beginning of life, and a groan at its close.”

“If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.”

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. ”

“To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.”

“The inconsistency is not in the Bible, but in your life.”

“All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”

“Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”