Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their aint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. 

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.” 

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.” 

“Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.” 

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.” 

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.” 

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.” 

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.” 

Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

The one prudence in life is concentration.

Life is our dictionary.

Life is a journey, not a destination

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.

“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.” 

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.” 

“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.” 

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”