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Life Quotes - Page 394

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

Euripides (2013). “Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, The Suppliant Women, Electra”, p.175, University of Chicago Press

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.463, Penguin

The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing

Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart.

Eknath Easwaran (1996). “Original Goodness: Elknath Easwaran on the Beatitudes of the Sermon on the Mount”, p.76, Nilgiri Press

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

"Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

Dorothea Lange, Robert Coles (1982). “Photographs of a Lifetime”

This life is but the childhood of our immortality.

Denis Johnson (2016). “Tree of Smoke”, p.317, Pan Macmillan

There's some things in life that you really consider to be priceless.

"Dave Grohl Finds Music's Human Element - In A Machine". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.wbur.org. March 8, 2013.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

"Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

Not everything worth keeping has to be useful.

Cynthia Lord (2013). “Rules”, p.38, Scholastic Inc.