The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. – Aristotle
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. – Oscar Wilde
Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. – Mahatma Gandhi
Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared. – Mahatma Gandhi
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. – Maya Angelou
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
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out. – Ronald Reagan
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body. – Mahatma Gandhi
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular. – Tony Robbins
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body. – Mahatma Gandhi
At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. – Barbara Bush
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life. – William Shakespeare
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child. – Ronald Reagan
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. – Henry Drummond
Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison. – Mahatma Gandhi
Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. – Marcus Aurelius
