Living and lifetime Quotes

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it

When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad ones

It is not well to make great changes in old age

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

Look before you leap.

Go about every action as thy last action.

Give yourself some repose; the land that has lain fallow, gives back in abundance what has been entrusted to it.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.

To him that lives well, every form of life is good.

The present is never our end; the past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime.

The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting,