Home » Life Life 1 One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.' Victor Hugo Life, Sometimes, Bored Add to Collection 2 The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Life, Happiness, Loved Add to Collection 3 It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. Victor Hugo Life, Wise, People Add to Collection 4 Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. Victor Hugo Life, Happiness, Greatest Add to Collection 5 Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak. Victor Hugo Life, Future, Light Add to Collection 6 Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. Victor Hugo Life, Future, Dreams Add to Collection 7 Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. Victor Hugo Life, Peace, Daily Add to Collection 8 The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. Victor Hugo Life, Love, Happiness Add to Collection 9 He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. Victor Hugo Life, Morning, Day Add to Collection 10 Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo Life, Time, Short Add to Collection 11 Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. Victor Hugo Life, Death, Dreams Add to Collection 12 Life is the flower for which love is the honey. Victor Hugo Life, Love, Flower Add to Collection 13 Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life. Victor Hugo Life, Decision, Thought Add to Collection 14 Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Respect, Man Add to Collection 15 There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Time, November Add to Collection 16 There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Find, Down Add to Collection 17 Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Work, Man Add to Collection 18 Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' Martin Luther King, Jr Life, You, Doing Add to Collection 19 The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr Life, Quality, Important Add to Collection 20 Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide. Woodrow Wilson Life, College, Past Add to Collection 21 There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States. Woodrow Wilson Life, Business, Politics Add to Collection 22 A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson Life, Love, Business Add to Collection 23 Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles. Woodrow Wilson Life, Crisis, Friend Add to Collection 24 I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose. Woodrow Wilson Life, Science, Political Add to Collection 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next › last »
