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Life Quotes

Laurence sterne - a large volume of adventures may be grasped...
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Walter Stegne
Mohandas ghandi - i cannot teach you violence, as i do not myself...
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.
Hannah Nixon
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
"Swampman" on Quartz
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
Life is not a spectacle or a feast it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
Luke Rhinehart
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
George Gordon Byron
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character the multitude pass us by like a distant army.
Jean Paul Friedrich Richte
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
Paul Tournie
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers, New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
Life is just a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
Alan Woods
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Woody Allen
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Quoting Churchill.
Ronald Reagan
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re - Visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
Virgil
The expectations of life depend upon diligence the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Confucius
One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.
Kin Hubbard
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true Cling to it long enough, and it will turn true again, for so it goes. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
God, I dont have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal, but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life. Take it.
Real Live Preache
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.
Archibald MacLeish
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
Victor Hugo
There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. Somerset Maugham
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - You win some and you lose some.
Ken Keyes
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
Margot Fonteyn
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
Unknown
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adle
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
John Kenneth Galbraith, Guardian (London, 28 July 1989)
You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
Mary McLeod Bethune
His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN.
William Shakespeare
Life is often compared to a marathon, but I think it is more like being a sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best.
Michael Johnson
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.
Author Unknown
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
W. R. Inge