Life Quotes
“The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.”
“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