Life Quotes
“A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.”
“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”
-- Marilyn Monroe
“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
“Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”
-- William Shakespeare
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
-- Helen Keller
“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
-- William Shakespeare
“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”
-- Robert Frost
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
-- Charlotte Bronte
“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”
-- Barack Obama