Living and lifetime Quotes

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idle

Every generation needs regeneration

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

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending

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

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition

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

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

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

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

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

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.