| Citat |
Sagt av |
| Ack, och ändå - Varför är den goda dum - Varför är den kloka ond - Varför är allt en trasa? | Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866) |
| Bättre att leva ett år som tiger än hundra som ett får. | Madonna (1958-) |
| De flesta av oss slösar bort våra liv som om vi hade ytterligare ett på banken. | Ben Irwin |
| Den högsta nöjet i livet är att göra det som folk säger att du inte får. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Det outforskade livet är inte värt att levas. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Där kärlek finns, finns liv. | Mahatma Ghandi (1869-1948) |
| Ett liv utan berömmelse kan vara ett bra liv, men berömmelse utan ett liv är inget liv alls. | Clive James (1939-) |
| Ett liv utan kärlek är som ett år utan sommar. | Swedish Proverb |
| Hemligheten om hälsa för både sinnet och kroppen är inte att sörja för vad som har hänt, oroa sej för framtiden eller att förvänta sig problem, men att leva i nuet, vis och ärlig. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Hemligheten till att ha ett privatliv är att inte svara på för många frågor om det. | Joan Collins (1933-) |
| Ju mer sand som har runnit genom livets timglas, desto klarare ser vi genom det. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Ju mindre rutin, desto mer liv. | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| Le åt döden! Hur kan detta vara möjligt om icke livet vore komiskt i sig självt? Så mycket bråk för så litet. | August Strindberg (1849-1912) |
| Livet fortsätter inom dig och utan dig. | The Beatles |
| Livet är alldeles för allvarligt för att man ska kunna tala allvar om det. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Livet är det som händer medan du gör upp andra planer. | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Livet är en lång väg med mängder av tecken. Så när du åker runt så ska du inte komplicera allt. Fly från hat, misslyckanden och avundsjuka. Begrav inte dina tankar, gör din vision till din verklighet. Vakna upp och lev! | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| Livet är en obotlig sjukdom. | Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) |
| Livet är en tragedi fylld av glädje. | Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) |
| Livet är en tragedi för de som känner men en komedi för de som tänker. | Horace Walpole (1717-1797) |
| Livet är ett mysterium. | Mettrie L. |
| Livet är för kort. | Bart Gold |
| Livet är för viktigt för att tas seriöst. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Livet är generellt något som händer någon annanstans. | Alan Bennett (1934-) |
| Livet är intressant... i slutet blir dina största smärtor dina största styrkor. | Drew Barrymore (1975-) |
| Livet är jobbigt; det är jobbigare om du är korkad. | John Wayne (1907-1979) |
| Livet är kort, och det är här för att levas. | Kate Winslet (1975-) |
| Livet är nu. | Delphine-Gay de Girardin (1804-1855) |
| Livet är orättvist; vänj dig vid det. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| Livet är som en sardinask, vi letar alla efter nyckeln. | Alan Bennett (1934-) |
| Livet är så olikt teorin. | Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) |
| Mitt livs historia handlar om bakdörrar, sidodörrar, hemliga hissar och andra sätt att komma in och ur ställen utan att folk stör mig. | Greta Garbo (1905-1990) |
| Mycket få människor lever i dag - de flesta gör förberedelser för att leva i morgon. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| När jag hör någon sucka att livet är hårt frestas jag alltid att fråga: "Jämfört med vad?". | Sydney Harris |
| Om livet ger dig citroner, gör nån typ av fruktig juice. | Conan O'Brien |
| Sann välsignelse består i ett gott liv och en lycklig död. | Solon (638 f.Kr.-559 f.Kr.) |
| Se på livet genom framrutan, inte genom backspegeln. | Byrd Baggett |
| Slåss med troll, befria prinsessor, döda varulvar, det är att leva. | August Strindberg (1849-1912) |
| Öppna dina ögon, Titta in. Är du nöjd med livet du lever? | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign,does not declare,'That is mine!' | Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) |
| Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own | Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies. | Adrienne Gusoff (1953-) |
| We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. | Alan Chadwick (1909-) |
| The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water. | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986) |
| Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible? | Alexander Eliot |
| There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day. | Alexander Woollcott (1887-1943) |
| We had no knowledge that our lives had just changed. You seldom sit at a crossroads and know it's a crossroads. But from the ovation forward, my life was not going to be the same. | Alex Raffe |
| Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. | Alex Tan |
| There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. | Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950) |
| If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn't bring you tears either joy or sadness, consider that you are wasted. | Ally McBeal |
| Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self. | Anatole Broyard |
| Life's more amusing than we thought. | Andrew Lang (1844-1912) |
| I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do. | Anna Kournikova (1981-) |
| The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. | Arthur Miller (1915-2005) |
| Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go. | Arthur Rubinstein (1887-1982) |
| The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go | Austin Dobson (1840-1921) |
| I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. | B. F. Skinner (1904-1990) |
| At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. | Barbara Bush (1925-) |
| Life is too large to hang out a sign: "For men Only | Barbara Jordan (1936-) |
| Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street. | Ben Nicholas |
| It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders. | Ben Stein (1944-) |
| Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success with two other people and the solace when you don't have success. | Bernard Greenhouse |
| Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. | Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-) |
| The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen. | Bob Lemon (1920-) |
| One good thing about music, when it hits- you feel no pain | Bob Marley (1945-1981) |
| The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins. | Bob Moawad |
| Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. | Brendan Gill (1914-1997) |
| You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison | Bronislaw Malinowski |
| My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience. | Cab Calloway (1907-1994) |
| Life is about timing. | Carl Lewis |
| Life's only limitations are those you set upon yourself, for as long as you strive hard enough anything is achievable. | Chad Williams |
| In life, as in chess, forethought wins. | Charles Buxton |
| Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. | Charles de Lint (1951-) |
| Life is made of ever so many partings welded together | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it | Charles R. Swindoll (1934-) |
| You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged. | Charles Spalding |
| Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends | Charles Sprague (1791-) |
| Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation | Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) |
| I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman. | Chavela Vargas (1919-) |
| Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it | Christine Frankland |
| People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling. | Claude Pepper |
| Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed. | Corita Kent (1918-1986) |
| What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. | Crowfoot |
| Life is not over because you have diabetes. Make the most of what you have, be grateful. | Dale Evans Rogers |
| Life: a cycle. A series of events, meetings, and departures. Friends discovered, others lost, Precious time, wastes away. Big droplet tears are shed for yesterday, but are dried in time for tomorrow, until all that remain are foggy, broken memories of a happy yesteryear. | Daniela Gallo |
| Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. | Danny Kaye (1913-1987) |
| Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can | Danny Kaye (1913-1987) |
| One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age. | Danny McGoorty |
| Life is too short for traffic | Dan Bellack |
| Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs do not have a moral value. Life is good... to be cherished, promoted and supported. We, as physicians, should not be moralizing about pain or its treatments. | Dan Brookoff |
| Celebrate we will for life is short but sweet for certain | Dave Matthews Band |
| Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. | David Gerrold (1944-) |
| The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn | David Russell (1942-) |
| The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn. | David Russell (1942-) |
| I had an essence in my life that I was nothing. | Demi Moore (1962-) |
| Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! | Don A. Dillman |
| Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old, And life's latest sands are its sands of gold! | Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) |
| Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. | Doug Larson |
| You die as you've lived. If you were paranoid in life, you'll probably be paranoid when you're dying. | Dr. James Cimino |
| The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others. | Dr. June Singer |
| Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual. | Dr. Paul Tournier |
| Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant. | Edna Ferber (1887-1968) |
| Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. | Edward Gorey (1925-2000) |
| Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves. | Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) |
| Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now. | Elder Richard G. Scott (1928-) |
| If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. [They] shiver you for a split second. | Eleanor Clark |
| I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty | Ellen Sturgis Hooper |
| Don't go through life, grow through life. | Eric Butterworth |
| Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. | Ernest Holmes (1887-) |
| Life is simply the reification of the process of living | Ernst Mayr |
| Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries. | Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) |
| There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff. | Finn Taylor (1958-) |
| The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. | Flora Whittemore |
| Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. | Fred Allen (1894-1956) |
| What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| ...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. | Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-) |
| Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. | George Bataille (1897-1962) |
| The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating... | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game | George Mikes (1912-) |
| When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. | Gilda Radner (1946-1989) |
| I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. | Giovanni Giocondo (1433-1515) |
| I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. | Gloria Naylor (1950-) |
| Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. | Grace Hansen |
| Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. | Grandma Moses (1860-) |
| Life is full of obstacle illusions. | Grant Frazier |
| Life is a sexually transmitted disease | Guy Bellamy |
| Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. | Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) |
| Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own. | Harmon Killebrew (1936-) |
| You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today; for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow | Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) |
| I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. | Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878-1969) |
| Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values. | Helen Merell Lynd |
| Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. | Helen Rowland (1876-1950) |
| The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer | Henry Beston |
| Life is a predicament which precedes death | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind. | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do. | Henry Moore (1898-1986) |
| Time should make enemies and Life should make friends. | Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) |
| To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life. | Henry R. Luce (1898-1967) |
| We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live life fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating, and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime. | Herbert A. Otto |
| Life is a cement trampoline. | Howard Nordberg |
| Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace. | Hugh Prather |
| They are not dead who live in lives they leave behind; In those whom they have blessed, they live a life again, And shall live, through the years, Eternal life, and grow each day more beautiful As time declares their good, Forgets the rest, and prove | Hugh Robert Orr |
| Life is always at some turning point. | Irwin Edmann (1896-1954) |
| How late I learned the essential things in life! In my childhood, nailed to the Gemara, I led the life of a sage, and it was only later, when I was older, that I began to climb trees | Isaac Babel |
| You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. | Jack Youngblood (1950-) |
| Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together | Jacqueline Bissett (1944-) |
| The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs | James Allen (1864-1942) |
| Dream as if you'll live forever, and live as if you'll die tomorrow | James Dean (1931-1955) |
| Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it | James Gibbons Huneker (1860-1921) |
| The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it. | James Stewart (1908-1997) |
| When important issues affecting the life of an individual are decided by somebody else, it makes no difference to the individual whether that somebody else is a king, a dictator, or society at large | James Taggart |
| The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. | James Taylor (1948-) |
| Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life. | Jane Seymour (1951-) |
| Life in part is what you make of it... in parting it is what it makes out of you. | Janice Markowitz |
| Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song. | Jason Zebehazy |
| We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. | Jean Toomer |
| Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life | Jeremiah Burroughs |
| You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need | Jerry Gillies |
| If you live your life in the past, you waste the life you have to live. | Jessica Cress |
| Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. | Jimmy Buffett (1946-) |
| To the question of your life you are the answer, and to the problems of your life you are the solution. | Joe Cordare |
| You only live a short time...and you are dead a long time.. | Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) |
| Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies | John Cleese (1939-) |
| Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. | John N. Mitchell |
| Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own, without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it. | John Vinocur |
| Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. | John W. Gardner (1912-2002) |
| Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. | John Wayne (1907-1979) |
| May you live all the days of your life. | Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) |
| Life is a temperamental state of mind. | Jordan Hostetler |
| Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose. | Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) |
| Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| Life itself is the proper binge. | Julia Child (1912-2004) |
| Live thy life! let not Hope's frauds, thefts, fool thee, bidding thee wait - Till a last dawn disposes of works, joys, put off too late | Julius Polyaenus |
| Who among us hasn't envied a cat's ability to ignore the cares of daily life and to relax completely? | Karen Brademeyer |
| Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. | Karen Ravn |
| Life is hard. After all, it kills you. | Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) |
| Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. | Kathleen Norris (1880-1966) |
| Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. | Keri Russell (1976-) |
| It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. | Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) |
| For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. | Laura Swenson |
| A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such "breaks" are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready. | Lawrence Downs |
| The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. | Leon Edel (1907-) |
| Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. | Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) |
| Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| Life is act, and not to do is death | Lewis Morris (1726-) |
| Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child’s coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself. | Louis L'Amour |
| She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. | Louis Untermeyer (1885-) |
| We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. | Luciano de Crescenzo (1928-) |
| The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. | Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) |
| Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen | Luke Rhinehart |
| Life is a crisis - so what! | Sir Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000) |
| The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe | Marcus Cole |
| To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times? | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too | Margaret Anderson (1893-1973) |
| Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. | Margaret Drabble (1939-) |
| Life forms illogical 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? | Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) |
| It's what I've dedicated my life to prevent-the nonwriting of the great poem. | Marian MacDowell |
| Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending | Maria Robinson |
| Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night. | Marion Howard |
| Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom. | Matthew Lotti |
| She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who imagines life must be full of emergencies. | Mavis Gallant |
| I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy] | Michael Caine (1933-) |
| Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. | Michael J. Gelb |
| 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 (1967-) |
| The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Life is doubt, And faith without doubt is nothing but death | Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) |
| Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win. | Mike Conner |
| Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings | Mohammed Iqbal |
| When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality. | Muriel Spark (1918-) |
| A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things | Murray Kempton |
| Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. | Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) |
| If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. | Nadine Stair |
| The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. | Natalie Kocsis |
| Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close in | Neil Gaiman (1960-) |
| There are three periods in life: youth, middle age and "how well you look | Nelson Rockefeller (1908-1979) |
| Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game | Nerijus Stasiulis |
| I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try. | Nikki Giovanni (1943-) |
| I am not going to fight against death but for life. | Norbert Segard |
| Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. | Norman Thomas (1884-1968) |
| It had been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly (but very firmly!),"I trust you; do what you must," life had an uncanny way of responding to your need | Olga Ilyin |
| Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. | Otto Weininger (1880-1903) |
| We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. | Paul A. Volcker |
| I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. | Pele (1940-) |
| When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure | Peter Marshall (1927-1949) |
| So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. | Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus |
| Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious. | Phillip Brooks |
| If life were to be found on a planet, then it would also have been contaminated by original sin and would require salvation | Piero Coda |
| The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. | R. D. Laing (1927-1989) |
| Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life. | Ralph Ransom |
| The purpose of life is a life of purpose. | Robert Byrne (1930-) |
| In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to | Roger Zelazny (1937-) |
| Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s. | Ronald Steel |
| Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. | Ron Wild |
| Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. | Rosalind Russell (1908-1976) |
| Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. | Rosalind Russell (1908-1976) |
| Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments | Rose F. Kennedy (1890-1995) |
| A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living | Rudolf Steiner |
| Life is a fractal in Hilbert space | Rudy Rucker |
| It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic | Russell Baker (1925-) |
| The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. | Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) |
| Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet. | Sarah Louise Delany |
| We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life. | Sara Paddison |
| Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in. | Saul Alinsky (1909-1972) |
| Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be | Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) |
| Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. | Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916) |
| Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician. | Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) |
| Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird.... | Sohrab Sepehri |
| Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. | Sri Aurobindo |
| Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing. | Stacey Charter |
| Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways | Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943) |
| Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. | Stewart B. Johnson |
| This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. | Susan Polis Schutz |
| Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. | Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) |
| When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" | Sydney J. Harris (1917-) |
| What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. | Tallulah Bankhead (1903-1968) |
| Life didn't promise to be wonderful. | Teddy Pendergrass (1950-) |
| Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. | Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) |
| There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow. | The Talmud |
| There is no enlightenment outside of daily life. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little | Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (1877-1929) |
| Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live. | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| Life isn't all beer and skittles | Thomas Hughes (1823-1896) |
| Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it | Thomas Walker |
| If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out | Timothy Leary (1920-1996) |
| Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human | Tim Hansel |
| By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death. | Titus Lucretius Carus |
| The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. | Tom Bodett (1955-) |
| Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get. | Tom Hanks (1956-) |
| Today, you have 100% of your life left. | Tom Landry (1924-2000) |
| Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it. | Tom Lehrer (1928-) |
| Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record | Tom Masson |
| Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. | Tom Peters |
| Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. | Tony Benn (1925-) |
| I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right. | Tracy Chapman (1964-) |
| For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. | Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) |
| Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
| You can get all A's and still flunk life. | Walker Percy (1916-1990) |
| Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. | Walter Anderson |
| Life is a long preparation for something that never happens | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. | William G. Golding (1911-1993) |
| Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. | William Goldman (1931-) |
| Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. | Win Borden |
| Dressing is a way of life. | Yves Saint Laurent (1936-) |
| Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. | Abdul Kalam (1931-) |
| The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point : This can be done. | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key | Alan Bennett (1934-) |
| Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog. | Alicia Silverstone (1976-) |
| The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. | Anaïs Nin (1903-1977) |
| The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles. | Anatole Broyard |
| The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. | Ann Morrow Lindbergh |
| One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through. | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| The only real failure in life is one not learned from. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| The most important things in life aren't things. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians. Do y | Ben Okri (1959-) |
| What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life. | Branch Rickey (1881-1965) |
| “A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.” | Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) |
| A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) |
| Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. | Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) |
| This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selection. | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life | Charles Darwin (1809-1882) |
| Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. | Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) |
| Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? | Charles de Lint (1951-) |
| That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... | Charlie Brown |
| Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination | Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) |
| There is only one success -to be able to spend your life in your own way. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning. | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed | Clifton Paul Fadiman |
| A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. | Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-) |
| In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost | Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) |
| Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. | Doug Larson |
| Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. | Edith Wharton (1862-1937) |
| City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. | Edward Hoagland |
| Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. | Edward Teller (1908-) |
| Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter. | Eileen Caddy |
| Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.' | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| He lives most life whoever breathes most air. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| Life is a state of consciousness. | Emmet Fox (1886-1951) |
| Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. | Erica Jong (1942-) |
| Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. | Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954) |
| And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age | Francis Quarles (1592-1644) |
| If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere. | Frank A. Clark |
| Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins. | Frank Dane |
| Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| The only way to win audiences is to tell people about the life and death of Christ. Every other approach is a waste. | Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) |
| There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| He that ceaseth to be a friend never was a good one. | H. G. Bohn |
| Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Life is either a great adventure or nothing. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. | Henri Bergson (1859-1941) |
| Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. | Henri Nouwen |
| You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. | Henry Fielding (1707-1754) |
| Life's too short for chess | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. | Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) |
| Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) |
| Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult | Hippocrates |
| Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. | Irving Berlin (1888-1989) |
| The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can, pursuing it with eager feet, until it joins some larger way where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| It's hard not to play golf that's up to | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will. | Jawaharlal Nehru (om Indira Gandhi) (1889-1964) |
| The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver. | Jay Leno (1950-) |
| Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life. | Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) |
| Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye. | Jean Kerr (1923-2003) |
| I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape | Jewel Kilcher (1974-) |
| The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life. | Jim Bishop (1907-1987) |
| Life is not so important as the duties of life | John Randolph (1915-2004) |
| Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents | John Wanamaker (1838-1922) |
| Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid. | John Wayne (1907-1979) |
| Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse | Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) |
| We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| There's more to life than cheek bones. | Kate Winslet (1975-) |
| The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. | Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) |
| Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. | Laurence Olivier, Sir (1907-1989) |
| Our life is made by the death of others. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| We might have been, these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing | Letitia Landon |
| Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific | Lily Tomlin (1939-) |
| Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts. | Louis Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) |
| Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. | Lou Holtz (1937-) |
| Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. | Lucretius |
| Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true | Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) |
| I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end | Marcelene Cox |
| The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Life is not merely being alive, but being well | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world. | Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919-1991) |
| I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated. | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) |
| I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Life is about balance too much excess is chaos. | Mettrie L. |
| Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. | Muriel Spark (1918-) |
| Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce. | Natalie Goldberg |
| Life is short; live it up. | Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971) |
| Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff. | Olivia Newton-John (1948-) |
| Will our life not be a tunnel between tow vague clarities? Or will it not be a clarity between two dark triangles? | Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) |
| We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, G-d gives us the sun-and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that w | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity! | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) |
| Life is a zoo in a jungle. | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic | Queen Victoria (1819-1901) |
| I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts | Rachel Carson (1907-1964) |
| Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. | Rebecca West (1892-1983) |
| I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. | General Robert E. Lee (1918-1870) |
| Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. | Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968) |
| Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture. | Russell Baker (1925-) |
| Life is one long process of getting tired. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. | Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) |
| Life is but thought. | Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) |
| Life is a frail moth flyingCaught in the web of the years that pass. | Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) |
| What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty | Shinichi Suzuki (1898-1998) |
| All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out | Solomon Ibn Gabirol |
| After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again. | St. Edna Vincent Millay |
| Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. | Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) |
| Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! | Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) |
| Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination. | Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) |
| My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon | Sydney Smith (1771-1845) |
| Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| We are all in a race for dear life: that is to say, we are fugitives from death | Theodor Reik (1888-1969) |
| Life is so short we must move very slowly. | The Talmud |
| To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence | Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. | Truman Capote (1924-1984) |
| I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. | Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor |
| The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good. | Walter Cronkite (1916-) |
| I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be. | Walter F. Mondale (1928-) |
| What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter. | Warren Spahn (1921-) |
| Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. | William James (1842-1910) |
| These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. | William James (1842-1910) |
| It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. | William Wordsworth (1770-1850) |
| When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? what was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that. | Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) |
| Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds | Zig Ziglar |
| Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away | The Talmud |
| Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show. | The Talmud |
| There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow. | The Talmud |
| Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing. | Stacey Charter |
| Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. | Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) |
| The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn | David Russell (1942-) |
| You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. | Henry Drummond (1851-1860) |
| One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| We must become the change we want to see. | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. | Bernice Johnson Reagon (1942-) |
| Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life isn't weird: it's just the people in it. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life is too important to be taken seriously. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. | Danny Kaye (1913-1987) |
| His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right | Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) |
| LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for. | Aaron Howard |
| Life is short and full of blisters | African-American Proverb |
| No one's a virgin, life screws us all! | AJ McLean (1977-1901) |
| Please, dear God, don't let me fuck up. | Alan B. Shepard, Jr. |
| Life is absurd | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| Life is a sum of all your choices. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| The great end of life is not knowledge but action. | Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) |
| Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible? | Alexander Eliot |
| Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking | Alexander Smith (1830-1867) |
| There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. | Alexandre Dumas |
| Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia | Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) |
| Brief is life but love is long. | Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| In the investigation of a neurotic style of life, we must always suspect an opponent, and note who suffers most because of the patient's condition. Usually this is a member of the family. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| We can comprehend every single life phenomenon, as if the past, the present, and the future together with a superordinate, guiding idea were present in it in traces. | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! | Alfred Adler (1870-1937) |
| Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe | Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) |
| "It has been said that war is the price of peace… Angola and Sierra Leone have already paid too much. Let them live a better life." | Ambassador Juan Larrain |
| I'm your only one... but what you call monogamy is lying to everyone. | Amel Larrieux |
| Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination | André Gide (1869-1951) |
| There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country. | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. | André Maurois (1885-1967) |
| I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that. | Andrew McMahon |
| Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| Life is a B Movie: it's stupid and it's strange, it's a directionless story, the dialogue is lame, but in the 'he said she said' sometimes there's some poetry, if you turn your back long enough and let it happen naturally. | Ani diFranco (1970-) |
| One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed | Ann Landers (1918-2002) |
| "You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ...Your entire life ...Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.Not just your bank account, but your soul."~ Anna Quindlen | Anna Quindlen (1953-) |
| Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. | Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906-2001) |
| Live or die, But don't poison everything. | Anne Sexton (1928-1974) |
| Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that". | Anthony Beal |
| I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with life? Life is pain. Life is inconvenience. Life is a tall, cool glass of "F**k You". Step away from the Prozac and Xanax, and Drink Up, Bitches. Refills are on the house... | Anthony Beal |
| Utter happiness is a fallacy. The best most of us can hope for is that occasional span of time which occurs at irregular lengths and intervals throughout our lives wherein for an all too ephemeral period, nothing in particular sucks about living. | Anthony Beal |
| If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both! | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate. | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| ...One loves the sunset when one is sad... | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) |
| Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. | Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) |
| Every day of your life is a page of your history | Arabian Proverb |
| Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| A life which does not go into action is a failure | Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) |
| Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| After your death you will be what you were before your birth. | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Human life must be some form of mistake | Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) |
| Life is not a problem - Life is the closest God has yet come to a solution | Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-) |
| Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. | Ashley Smith |
| Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. | Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) |
| It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.' | Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) |
| I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. | Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) |
| The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place. | Barbara De Angelis |
| You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act. | Barbara Hall |
| "How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light." | Barry Lopez (1945-) |
| Zffff...what was that, sir? That was your life. Can I get another one? No, sorry. | Basil Fawlty |
| Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Life is too short to be small. | Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) |
| Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| All would live long; but none would be old | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Life is a tragedy full of joy. | Bernard Malamud (1914-1986) |
| That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise. | Bert McCracken |
| Life is short and so is money | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry. | Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey |
| We are all artists in everything we do. Art is creating; it is our link that makes us like god. All you have to do is look at any form of nature to know that god was the greatest artist of all. He gives us beauty in his creations to inspire us to find the artists inside of us. Art isn’t just about painting or sculpture. It is in everything from how you organize your life to how communicate with the world. | Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey |
| We are all artists creating every single second of our lives whether it be good or bad. | Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey |
| The greatest work of art created first by god and then by man, is the creation of life. The whole process is an amazing art in itself. The fact that it takes two artists, man and woman, each bringing their own parts of a pallet to create a work of art that not only has a piece of both artists but is also a living, breathing, ever-changing, piece of art with an identity of it’s own. | Bethany Jane Andrews Hoey |
| Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. | Bette Davis (1908-1989) |
| The ransom of a man's life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke (Proverbs 13:8). | Bible |
| Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away (James 4:14). | Bible |
| Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment (Matthew 6:25)? | Bible |
| I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely | Bible |
| Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life | Bible |
| He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal (John 12:25). | Bible |
| Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live | Bible |
| My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous | Bible |
| Encore implies that life is not a continuous process, that there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life. For me, there are a lot of exciting things in front of me at Microsoft, things that we want to see if we can make ha | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. | Bill Gates (1955-) |
| A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic. | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures? Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms? Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems? ...I gotta get my life some writers. | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| I'M SIGNIFICANT! screamed the dust speck. | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track. | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own! | Bill Watterson (1958-) |
| Our passion is our strength. | Billie Joe Armstrong (1972-) |
| Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere. | Billie Joe Armstrong (1972-) |
| When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then? | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| There is nothing more real than this, nothing more terrible. Be we as heroic as we like, that is the end which awaits the noblest life in the world. Let us reflect on this and then say whether it is not beyond doubt that there is no good in this life | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God | Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) |
| The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps. | Bob Black |
| you can like the life you're living, you can live the life you like. you can even marry harry, but mess around with ike and that's good, isn't it grand? isn't it great? isn't it swell? in fifty years or so, it's gonna change you know, but oh it's heaven now a days. | Bob Fosse (1927-) |
| I’m still runnin’ against the windWell I’m older now and stillAgainst the wind | Bob Seger (1945-) |
| The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile. | Boniface Wimmer (1809-1887) |
| The world's a rollercoaster and I am not strapped in.Maybe I should hold with care, but my hands are busy in the air. | Brandon Boyd |
| I think perhaps Love thrives on chance and unlikely circumstance. Life also thrives on these principles-- and is life not love? AND LOVE NOT LIFE? | Brandon Boyd |
| I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself. | Brittany Renée |
| Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will. | Bruce Lee (1940-1973) |
| We're a long, long way from home. Home's a long, long way from us. | Bruce Springsteen (1949-) |
| What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Embrace nothing: If you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha. If you meet your father, kill your father. Only live your life as it is, Not bound to anything. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| It is surprising, in the welter of questions that one gets at (languor), how few actually relate to the performance of the company, or the decisions taken by the board in particular areas. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Life at home is cramped and dirty, it is difficult to live a spiritual life completely, perfect and pure in all its parts while cabinned | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| Life is suffering. | Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.) |
| The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Life isn't all fricassied frog and eel pie. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn. | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. | Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) |
| Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy. | Chaim Potok (1929-) |
| Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form. | Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) |
| The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse | Charles Dickens (1812-1870) |
| Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever; Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make Life, and Death, and that For Ever, One grand sweet song | Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) |
| Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. | Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) |
| The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes. | Charles R. Swindoll (1934-) |
| That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.... | Charlie Brown |
| What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| That´s what all we are. Amateurs. We don´t live long enough to be anything else. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Billions of years it´s taken to evolve human conciousness and you want to wipe it out. Wipe out the miracle of all existence. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| What can stars do? Nothing..But sit on their axis! | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| That´s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves. | Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) |
| Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. | Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) |
| Life is a verb. | Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) |
| We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it. | Che Guavara |
| Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. | Chief Seattle |
| Life is a dream walking death is a going home. | Chinese Proverbs |
| Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes | Christine Anderson |
| Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryone's living the American Dream so we canBuild up an armyAnd SMASH it to pieces! | Christine Anderson |
| Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life. | Christine Anderson |
| There's a clock on the wall and it's measuring downThe time you have left til you're dust on the groundThe people you love with the time that you've gotDetermine if you are rememebered or not v i v a l ' a m o u r | Christine Anderson |
| There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning | Christopher Morley (1890-1957) |
| Why don't you climb down off the cross, take the wood to build a bridge, and get over it! | Christopher Titus (1966-) |
| A house full of condiments and no real food. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| I just don't want to die without a few scars. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| There will always be cougars outside. It's such a chick thing to think that life should just go on forever. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Without just one nestA bird can call the world homeLife is your career | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up. | Chuck Palahniuk (1961-) |
| You know it ain't easy For these thoughts here to leave meThere's no words to describe itIn French or in EnglishWell, diamonds they fadeAnd flowers they bloomAnd I'm telling youThese feelings won't go awayThey've been knockin' me sidewaysThey've been knockin' me out latelyWhenever you come around meThese feelings won't go away They've been knockin' me sidewaysI keep thinking in a moment thatTime will take them awayBut these feelings won't go away. | Citizen Cope |
| Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning. | Clifford Geertz |
| A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long,full of adventure, full of knowledge. | Constantine Peter Cavafy |
| Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turn before we have learnt to walk | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| What we want is some sort of communism not based on wages, nor profits, nor any sort of buying and selling but on a religion of life. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do--it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory b | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. | Dalai Lama (1935-) |
| Did you know that IExist before the earthAnd did you know my eyesAre windows to the world. | Damian Marley |
| Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul.It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold. | Damian Marley |
| Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist. | Damian Marley |
| Did you know the pen is stronger than the knife: they can kill you once but they can't kill you twice. | Damian Marley |
| Fear not of evilEveryday dem flesh it grow oldChanges of the time take the toll. | Damian Marley |
| Life is too short for traffic | Dan Bellack |
| Pain does not have a moral value. Drugs do not have a moral value. Life is good... to be cherished, promoted and supported. We, as physicians, should not be moralizing about pain or its treatments. | Dan Brookoff |
| Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems. | Dan Castellaneta (1958-) |
| Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. | Danny Kaye (1913-1987) |
| But I live and I know that I burn as I grow. | Dar Williams |
| What I want is what I've not got, and what I need is all around me. | Dave Matthews Band |
| Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. | David Gerrold (1944-) |
| I’ll see you foreverFor you are a part of meAnd I myself a part of theeInseparable in GodThre is no tomorrow nowThough sun may rise and setAnd sleepy eyes may slumber, stillEternity now is setIt’s stamped upon my heart and yoursIt’s seal : the Love of ChristWhich willingly I have receivedAnd cherish more than earthly lifeThis soul awaits a body that will not die-This soul awaits to see Him with it’s eye-This soul awaits our meeting in the sky-For faithful is our GodWho once did die , but now’s ALIVE :We’ll see Him forever. | David Severy |
| There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle. | Deepak Chopra (1947-) |
| Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. | Denis Waitley (-1933) |
| Friendship, love, health, energy, enthusiasm, and joy are the things that make life worth living and exploring. | Denise Austin |
| Life began as a mystery and will end as a mystery, but what an exciting and wonderful time it is in between. | Diane Ackermann |
| Adventure is the essence of life. | Dick Rutan |
| But, after all, one cannot, at sixty-two, look back down the corridor of one's life and not have some doubts about the journey one has made. The doors which one opened are now all closed. The doors one did not dare open remain shut. The corridor is dark; only ahead is lighter. So one turns and proceeds in that direction. To go back is madness. To turn left or right, at this stage, is both exhausting and dangerous. | Dirk Bogarde (1920-1999) |
| Went to the beach for the day and wrote as much as I could about this incredible experience and where my life seemed to be taking me, etc. I fell asleep, and when I woke up the papers were blowing down the beach and into the water. I sat up and watched until I couldn't see one piece of paper left. I drove home and felt happy. | Dominic Monaghan (1976-) |
| Life has a way of kicking you in the ass... or smearing chocolate on your bum. | Dominic Monaghan (1976-) |
| Thousands stand and chant. Around them in the world, people ride escalators going up and sneak secret glances at the faces coming down. People dangle teabags over hot water in white cups. Cars run silently on the autobahns, streaks of painted light. People sit at desks and stare at office walls. They smell their shirts and drop them in the hamper. People bind themselves into numbered seats and fly across time zones and high cirrus and deep night, knowing there is something they've forgotten to do. | Don Delillo (1936-) |
| Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| Any day above ground is a good one. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone. | Don Williams, Jr (1968-) |
| The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination. | Don Williams, Jr. (1968-) |
| It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things. | Donald Miller |
| Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think. | Doug Horton |
| Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. | Doug Larson |
| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| Life is wasted on the living. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. | Douglas Adams (1952-2001) |
| Life is a lively process of becoming. | General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
| Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words | Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928-) |
| What is life? We are born, we live a little and we die. | E. B. White (1899-1985) |
| Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the sky of the sky of a tree called life;Which grows higher than soul can hope or mind can hide.And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart.I carry your heart.I carry it in my heart. | E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) |
| Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice... | E. M. Forster (1879-1970) |
| We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. | E. Merrill Root |
| The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. | Earl Nightingale |
| Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. | Earl Warren (1891-1974) |
| Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. | Edith Wharton (1862-1937) |
| To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge - this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless. | Edna Ferber (1887-1968) |
| Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again. | Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) |
| Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come. | Edvard Munch (1863-1944) |
| In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. | Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) |
| Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. | Edward Gorey (1925-2000) |
| Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. | Edward Teller (1908-) |
| Every life is its own excuse for being. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Life is just one damned thing after another. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Life without absorbing occupation is hell. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential. | Elder Richard G. Scott (1928-) |
| Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life. | Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |
| 'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life | Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) |
| Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. | Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) |
| To know I chose my own fate I drove through the fork in the road and went straight. | Eminem (1972-) |
| The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. | Eminem (1972-) |
| Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. | Emma Goldman (1869-1940) |
| A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs... | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Lameness is an impediment to the body but not to the will. | Epictetus (55-135) |
| Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one is ever too young or too old to reach one's soul's healthy. | Epicurus |
| Those who tell the young man to live well and the old man to die well is nothing but a fool, not only for what life has in happiness to both young and old, but also for one must be careful in live honestly as well as die honestly." | Epicurus |
| Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order. | Erica Jong (1942-) |
| There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. | Erich Fromm (1900-1980) |
| If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits? | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it. | Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) |
| In order to write about life, first you must live it! | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| Live life to the fullest. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. | Etty Hilsum |
| Life is a short affair; we should try to make it smooth, and free from strife | Euripides (480 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| A sign of growing old is when interviewers start asking you,“What would you do differently if you had your life to live over again?” I give some sort of answer because I don’t wish to be rude, but I don’t tell them the image that comes into my mind because they would think it vain and frivolous, and no one wants to be a subject for ridicule. I see myself as a tall, skinny Fellini, vigorously lifting weights. That’s what I would do differently. I would lift weights. | Federico Fellini (1920-1993) |
| Life is like a sandwich of sh*t and everyday you take a bite. | Felix Sabates |
| Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. | Flaubert (1821-1880) |
| Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. | Fra Giovanni Giocondo |
| Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep | Fran Lebowitz (1950-) |
| Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation | Frank Herbert (1920-1986) |
| Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual | Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) |
| We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. | Mister Fred Rogers (1928-2003) |
| Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. | Frederick Buechner (1926-) |
| The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first | French Proverb |
| Life is half spent before one knows what life is. | French Proverb |
| Life is an onion and one peels it crying | French Proverb |
| If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. | Friedl and the Children of Terezin |
| The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Life always gets harder toward the summit - the cold increases, the responsibility increases | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. | Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) |
| The true object of all human life is play. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things. | G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) |
| One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop. | G. Weilacher |
| Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. | Garrison Keillor (1942-) |
| Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-- clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake. | Gemma Ward (1987-) |
| Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. In the face of an Indian, you can see the natural glory of life, while we have covered ourselves with an artificial cloak. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Life is a series of dogs | George Carlin (1937-) |
| Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. | George Eliot (1819-1880) |
| Is there life before death | George Gurdjief |
| There'll come a time when all of us must leave here, then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you. As nothing in this life that I've been trying could equal or surpass the art of dying. Do you believe me? | George Harrison (1943-2001) |
| Life is half spent before we know what it is. | George Herbert (1593-1633) |
| A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward. | George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) |
| Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all | George M. Cohan (1878-) |
| There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. | George Sand (1804-1876) |
| Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything. | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it | German Proverb |
| I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again. | Gillian Anderson (1968-) |
| I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. | Gloria Naylor (1950-) |
| Life is accepting what is and working from that. | Gloria Naylor (1950-) |
| It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. | Grandma Moses (1860-) |
| I don't care if you don't care | Green Day |
| Kill all the fags that don't agree | Green Day |
| Do the things that you f***ing believe in. That's what matters right now. | Green Day |
| When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life | Greg Anderson (1964-) |
| There's no time in life to be in neutral. | Greg McDermott |
| She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party | Groucho Marx (1890-1977) |
| I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. | Harold Kushner |
| Life is livable because we know that whatever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos | Henry Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) |
| Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we were good for was to make the introductions. | Helen Hayes (1900-1993) |
| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| When you are young, you think.When you are old, you reflect.The very same but yet a life of difference. | Helene Lagerberg |
| The longer I live the more I need to learn. | Helene Lagerberg |
| Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind! | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| Every life is a profession of faith and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. | Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821-1881) |
| All that I really have to recount are observations and notes made during the course of my life as a painter. I ask those who will have the patience to read these notes the indulgence usually granted to the writings of painters | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| We live but a fraction of our lives | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. | Henry Drummond (1851-1860) |
| Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward. | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this | Henry Ford (1863-1947) |
| Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong: beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, peolpe of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? | Jr. Henry James (1843-1916) |
| The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly swatter | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| No man ever quite believes in any other man | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine. | Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
| Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. | Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
| The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. | Henry Miller (1891-1980) |
| Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. | Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933) |
| Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one. | Heraclitus of Ephesus |
| The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. | Herman Hesse |
| Trying is the first step to failure | Homer Simpson (1955-) |
| Life cannot go on without much forgetting. | Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) |
| We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think. | George Horace Lorimer (1867-1937) |
| Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. | Howard Thurman (1900-1981) |
| Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. | Hugh Hefner (1926-) |
| Sometimes I feel like a Stepping Stone... I am that kind, young lady that offers a wanderer food 'n drink off to the side of the road -- in the middle of nowhere as they journey into the next phase of their life. I am that kind, young lady that will change a stranger's life forever, and be a burned out memory in the back of their mind... I was that lady with the sad green eyes, the kind smile... The one that offered you a helping hand and good conversation while you ate your food. | Idalyze Nasiha Rose |
| I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God | Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) |
| A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored. | Imam Ali |
| Without depression and anxiety, I would not be who I am; a person who can see beauty and humour in the smallest and least likely of things; appreciating others kindness tenfold. When the black clouds of despair descend and life seems pointless I try to remember that one day in the future, perhaps this very day, a gentle breeze will blow the clouds away and allow the sunshine in. When that happens the world is a new and magical place and I wish to live forever. | Irene Grodecki |
| And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| Life is God's novel. Let him write it. | Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991) |
| Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) |
| In life there can be no victor, for death comes to all and smites them. | J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, "Fear life, but don't die; you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt." | Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) |
| It's hard not to play golf that's up to | Jack Nicklaus (1940-) |
| Looking back, my life seems like one long obstacle race, with me as the chief obstacle. | Jack Paar (1916-2004) |
| Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life. | Jackie Robinson (1919-1972) |
| I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of happy moments, as well. Every moment one lives is different from the other. The good, the bad, hardship, the joy, the tragedy, love, and happiness are all interwoven into one single, indescribable whole that is called life. You cannot separate the good from the bad. And perhaps there is no need to do so, either. | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994) |
| If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real | Jacques Barzun (1907-) |
| I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion. | Jacques Mayol (1927-) |
| I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you. | Jake Gyllenhaal (1980-) |
| "Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other young man my age.And I've discovered that most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes. Therefore, when I do play a youth, such as in Warner Bros. Rebel Without A Cause, I try to imitate life. The picture deals with the problems of modern youth. It is the romanticized conception of the juvenile that causes much of our trouble with misguided youth nowadays. I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. You know, a lot of times an older boy, one of the fellows the young ones idolize, can go back to the high school kids and tell them, "Look what happened to me! Why be a punk and get in trouble with the law? Why do these senseless things just for a thrill?" I hope "Rebel Without A Cause" will do something like that. I hope it will remind them that other people have feelings. Perhaps they will say, "What do we need all that for?" If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. | James Dean (1931-1955) |
| Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. | James Dean (1931-1955) |
| Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path....This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am. | James Hillman |
| The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it | James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) |
| Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. | James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) |
| We try a new drug, a new combination of drugs, and suddenly I fall into my life again like a vole picked up by a storm then dropped three valleys and two mountains away from home. I can find my way back. I know I will recognize the store where I used to buy milk and gas. I remember the house and barn, the rake, the blue cups and plates, the Russian novels I loved so much, and the black silk nightgown that he once thrust into the toe of my Christmas stocking. | Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) |
| Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life. | Jane Seymour (1951-) |
| I'd rather die enormous than live dormant. | Jay-Z |
| One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else. | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. | Jean Baudrillard |
| Life is a horizontal fall. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end. | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. | Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) |
| Not through discovery but through our fathomlessness do we move confidently through life. | Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) |
| Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play. | Jeanette Winterson (1959-) |
| My heart is a gypsy - continuously searching for a home, fighting within itself, wondering whether it is weak or even right for that matter to be searching in the first place. Lonliness is what it feels like... | Jenna Jameson (1974-) |
| You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, andsuffer, and understand, for all that is life. | Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) |
| All of life seems like that. Once we settle into some phase or other, and become attached to it, some unknown force makes us move on, only death obviously relieving us from these exhausting cycles. | Jill Johnston |
| And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away | Jimmy Buffet (1946-) |
| If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain. | Jimmy Buffett (1946-) |
| Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen. | Jimmy Buffett (1946-) |
| So as sure as the sun will shine,.I'm gonna get my share now of what's mineAnd then the harder they come the harder they'll fall, one and all. | Jimmy Cliff (1948-) |
| One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. | Joan of Arc (1412-1431) |
| Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it. | Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-) |
| When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love. | Joanne Kathleen Rowling (1965-) |
| You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. | Joe E. Lewis (1902-1971) |
| Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Life is the childhood of our immortality. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies | John Cleese (1939-) |
| You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. | John Cleese (1939-) |
| Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease | John Dryden (1631-1700) |
| Sometimes the easiest way is the hard way. | John Finn (1952-) |
| If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| 'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died | John Gay (1685-1732) |
| Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci | John Keats (1795-1821) |
| Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it | John Keats (1795-1821) |
| 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 (1908-) |
| You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one.I hope some day you'll join usand the world will be as one. | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun. | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. | John Lennon (1940-1980) |
| Amidst all the attention given to the sciences as to how they can lead to the cure of all diseases and daily problems of mankind, I believe that the biggest breakthrough will be the realization that the arts, which are conventionally considered "useless," will be recognized as the whole reason why we ever try to live longer or live more prosperously. The arts are the science of enjoying life. | John Maeda |
| Scared of the world outside you should go explore, pull all the shades and wander the great indoors. Though lately I can't blame you, I have seent he world and sometimes I wish your room had room for two. | John Mayer (1977-) |
| Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing. It's ok though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8-color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation.. so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type.. I'm like, "hey girl, magenta!" and she's like, "oh, you mean purple!" and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, "no - I want magenta!" | John Mayer (1977-) |
| I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve. | John Mayer (1977-) |
| Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of having read the reviews | John Updike (1932-) |
| The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.Life and love go on, let the music play. | Johnny Cash (1932-2003) |
| Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. | Jonathan Larson (1960-) |
| Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life. | Jorja Fox (1968-) |
| Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. | José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) |
| The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. | Joseph Addison (1672-1719) |
| We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is Whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends | Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) |
| Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well | Josh Billings (1818-1885) |
| do tou think i would speak for you? i dont even know your language | Judd Nelson (1959-) |
| A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste. | Jules Carlysle (1970-) |
| As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to live it more and more | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| We spend our lives talking about this mystery - our life. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all? | Julian Casablancas (1978-) |
| The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams. | Julian Casablancas (1978-) |
| The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived | Decimus Junius Juvenal (60-127) |
| The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky. | Kansas |
| I'm tired of all this isolation. I'm tired of this triviality of life. I want real human emotion. I want to feel the natural spontaneity of life, the beautiful randomness and rawness that is life. I want to see you and I want you to see me and I want to bask in that moment of humility and intimacy and the acknowledgement of your dignity and my humanity, even if it is for a second. That'll be enough. | Kate Miller |
| The question shouldn't be "is there life after death" but "is there life before death"... | Kate Miller |
| It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. | Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) |
| Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in. | Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) |
| Days go by like a hand out the window in the wind! | Keith Urban |
| Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky. | Kerry Livgren (1949-) |
| Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. | Kevin Arnold |
| I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you.If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time. | Kingsley Amis (1922-1995) |
| La vie est un long fleuve qui mene a la mort. La survie est une goutte d'eau dans le desert... le fleuve ne quittera jamais son lit pour sauver cette goutte d'eau. | Kristeven Mootien |
| "The duty of youth is to challenge corruption" | Kurt Cobain (1967-1994) |
| Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-) |
| When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape. | L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) |
| Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them #NAME?forward in whatever way they like. | Lao Tzu |
| Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. | Lao Tzu |
| I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. | Laurence Olivier, Sir (1907-1989) |
| Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. | Leo F. Buscaglia |
| Without knowing why I am and why I am here, life is impossible. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite obje | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God; and this can be done only by means of the acknowledgment and profession of the truth by each one of us. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| True life is lived when tiny changes occur. | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| If you are content with the old world, try to preserve it, it is very sick and cannot hold out much longer. But if you cannot bear to live in everlasting dissonance between your beliefs and your life, thinking one thing and doing another, get out of | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |
| Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development | Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) |
| But Life will suit Itself to Sorrow's most detested fruit, Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess. | Louis B. Nizer (1902-1994) |
| Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
| I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake. | Luis Miguel |
| I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike. | Madeleine L'Engle |
| Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring. | Mae West (1892-1980) |
| We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. It’s simple. It isn’t going to get us anything. It isn’t there to augment anything. It’s there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy. | Maharaji (1957-) |
| Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. | Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1911-) |
| My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind | Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) |
| Life is a crisis - so what! | Sir Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000) |
| It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh. | Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) |
| Nothing can subtract hard work from success, only add to it. | Manjunath Harlapur |
| Life is short, wear tropical shirts. | Marc Lampe |
| Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things | Marcel Proust (1871-1922) |
| Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Remember this, - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion. | Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180) |
| While there's life, there's hope. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly effect, truly, if it eases us of what in youth was the sorest plague of life | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundaries | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. | Margaret Mead (1901-1978) |
| I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. | Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949) |
| Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third | Marge Piercy (1936-) |
| 'What is REAL?' asked the Rabbit one day, 'Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?''Real isn't how you are made,' said the Skin Horse. 'It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.[...] 'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?''It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to the people who don't understand.' | Margery Williams |
| I don’t know yet if I am, but I do know you are, and this gives me a feeling of fulfillment. | Mariana Fulger |
| In my soul, humanity is a single part, a big gentle bird whose song I use to sing every early morning in the silence of the Universe. | Mariana Fulger |
| Be there next time happiness visits you. | Mariana Fulger |
| If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting. | Mariana Fulger |
| ...it's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself not for everyone else.... | Mariska Hargitay (1964-) |
| Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary. | Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-) |
| I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them | Mark Haddon |
| Sometimes you're the window; Sometimes you're the bug. | Mark Knopfler (1949-) |
| All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| As far as living a solitary lifestyle, it takes just one person to dance alone. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| Having good strategies in playing chess is often a good indication of being focused in life. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| You may forget about tomorrow's concerns if you're only living for today, but others won't. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| Life in the now, is gone tomorrow The only way to know is die Then to reveal its convenient lie. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| The chemistry of couples is much like chemistry at the work bench. At the work bench, if the components are correctly chosen, the resulting compounds are likely to be more stable. Similarly with people, if a partner is carefully chosen, the resulting chemical bond between the two will more likely be more stable as opposed to selecting a partner at random. If sex is added to the chemistry and enjoyed by both then stability in the relationship is even more likely to be guaranteed. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| I'd like to write what life could be like, instead of what it is like. I guess I haven't figured out enough on how to live to the best of my abilities to be able to be metaphorical or use similes about this apparent reality called "life" around me. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity.Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights.You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live. | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?' | Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) |
| Tell me, what is it you plan to dowith your one wild and precious life? | Mary Oliver |
| It's better to be in love than to watch it. | Matt Dugan |
| Life is a series of commas, not periods. | Matthew McConaughey (1949-) |
| When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If his only concern is for life, and he thinks "if I only have my dear life," he does not apply his full strength to using, i. e., enjoying, life. | Max Stirner (1806-) |
| He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. | Max Stirner (1806-) |
| kudos to the educators, athletes, dancers, judges, janitors, politicians, artists, actors, writers, singers, poets, and social activist, to all who dare to look at like with humor, determination and respect | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad itseems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I've learned thatyou can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned thatregardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they'regone from your life. I've learned that making a living is not the same thing asmaking a life. I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on bothhands; you need to be able to throw some things back. I've learned that wheneverI decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I'velearned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned thatevery day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, orjust a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn. I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what youdid, but people will never forget how you made them feel. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| I’ve learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| I try to live what I consider a "poetic existence." That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work. | Maya Angelou (1928-) |
| Life isn't all haha hehe. | Meera Syal (1961-) |
| Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be. | Meg Cabot (1967-) |
| Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here. | Melissa Etheridge (1961-) |
| Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't. | Melody Beattie |
| Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving. | Michael J. Gelb |
| The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace. | Michael Jordan (1963-) |
| Child, as I look in your eyesYou know my life seems like a minuteThere I find living proofOf all the wonder life hold in itIn the past I thought I had to learnAny good that comes from this life we’re livingHere and now, let us realizeThat this life’s gift and it’s already been given. | Michael McDonald |
| Life is a dream; when we sleep we are awake, and when awake we sleep | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... We sleeping wake, and waking sleep. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going. | Michelle Rodriguez |
| Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I am going to live-or at least try to live-the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humor, with composure. | Mitch Albom (1958-) |
| No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone. | Mitch Albom (1958-) |
| Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live. | Morrie Schwartz |
| A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things | Murray Kempton |
| If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies. | Nadine Stair |
| Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Do not fear death... only the unlived life.You don't have to live forever;You just have to live. | Natalie Babbitt (1932-) |
| Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| Life is made up of marble and mud. | Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) |
| He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. | Neil Gaiman (1960-) |
| But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence. | Neil Postman (1931-2003) |
| Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce. | Nick Carter (1980-) |
| You've got to aim high and see where you land. | Nigel Harman (1973-) |
| Life is an adventure in forgiveness. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| Know that you yourself are a miracle. | Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993) |
| "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life" | Octavio Paz (1914-1998) |
| To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead | Og Mandino (1923-1996) |
| Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor | Ogden Nash (1902-1971) |
| Do not mix de galloping of your horse, my knight, with the beating of your heart. | Old Chinese Proverb |
| Life is a great bundle of little things | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived | Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |
| Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is sweet. Let it go on. | Orson Scott Card (1951-) |
| The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age. | Orson Welles (1915-1985) |
| Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The secret of life is in art. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life imitates art far more than art imitates life. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| There is nothing certain in a man’s life but that he must lose it. | Owen Meredith (1831-1891) |
| It takes a long time to become young. | Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) |
| The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. | Paris Hilton (1981-) |
| Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still. | Patricia Russell-McCloud |
| Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. | Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) |
| A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that love is stronger than death. | Paul Lombard |
| Like the color of my skin ~~ Or the day that I grow old ~~ My life is made of patterns ~~ That can scarcely be controlled. | Paul Simon (1941-) |
| 'Why do we have to listen to our hearts?' 'Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.''But my heart is agitated,"' the boy said. 'It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it's become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I'm thinking about her.' 'Well, that's good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.' | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| It (destiny) is what you have always wanted to accomplish. Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to yearn for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. | Paulo Coelho (1947-) |
| You never find yourself until you face the truth | Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) |
| For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. | Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) |
| What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. | Pericles |
| Your biggest fantasy is walking away from the life (they think) you lead. | Pete Wentz |
| Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back in the direction he came | Peter de Vries (1910-1993) |
| When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure | Peter Marshall (1927-1949) |
| Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle. | Peter McWilliams (1949-) |
| Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. | Pierre de Coubertin (1863-1937) |
| For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Life must be lived as play. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose | Plutarktos (46-119) |
| It is really surprising sometimes how a prohibition seems to exist solely in order to be violated. And when I disobeyed I felt that what I did was pleasurable. For children such as I at that time - oh, how many prohibitions and restrictions were heaped on our heads! Yes, it was as though the whole world was watching us, bent forbidding whatever we did and what ever we wanted. Inevitably we children felt that this world was really intended only for adults. | Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-) |
| That eternally harassing, tantalizing future. Mystery! We will all eventually arrive there - willing or unwilling, with all our soul and body. And too often it proves to be a great despot. And so, in the end, I arrived too. Whether the future is a kind or a cruel god is, of course, its own affair. Humanity too often claps with just one hand. | Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1925-) |
| For all of us who are alive, life is the real issue. Yet so often we judge our existence by the things that happen to us—by whether things are going our way or not. Sometimes we feel strong—strong enough to dictate our future. Sometimes we feel that we can make things happen. Then there are times when we feel totally helpless. But through all the dramas and bumps, there is life. There is the very powerful, very existence of every single human being | Prem Rawat |
| To live this life, my friends, you have to have a genuine passion. Nothing artificial. To live this life, to love this life, you have to have a genuine passion. People think Kabir was so wonderful because he was uneducated and yet he said all these wonderful things. Do you think it would have been different had Kabir gone to Yale and Oxford? If so, you missed the point. The point isn't whether he was educated or not, because, in the truest sense, he was very educated. More educated than most people. The point is that passion. Maybe you won't be able to write like Kabir, but you can feel the same passion. Passion is the point. That love is the point. That feeling is the point. That is achievable by everyone sitting in this hall, and in the city of London, and on this planet Earth. That passion. That love. That awakening. That joy. | Prem Rawat |
| Life is a bowl of cherries | Proverb |
| Live thy life as it were spoil and pluck the joys that fly. | Proverb |
| Ignorance is the peace of life. | Proverb |
| He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live. | Proverb |
| Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance | Proverb |
| If life deals you lemons made lemonade | Proverb |
| In the midst of life we are in death | Proverb |
| Life is not living, but being in health. | Proverb |
| Life is just a bowl of cherries. | Proverb |
| Life is what you make it. | Proverb |
| Those who have never tried the experiment of a holy life measure the laws of God, not by their intrinsical goodness, but by the reluctancy and opposition which they find in their hearts | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Life is short, but its ills make it seem long | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. | Publilius Syrus (85 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Life is perpetually creative because it contains in itself that surplus which ever overflows the boundaries of the immediate time and space, restlessly pursuing its adventure of expression in the varied forms of self-realization. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Man is immortal; therefore he must die endlessly. For life is a creative idea; it can only find itself in changing forms | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| It was our preparation, knowledge and experience that kept us alive. | Rachel Kelsey (1969-) |
| Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. | Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) |
| To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Life is a festival only to the wise. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Only so much do I know, as I have lived | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Who loses a day loses life | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| 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. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Life is a progress, and not a station. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Always do what you are afraid to do. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| A chief event in life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Washington, where an insignificant individual may trespass on a nation's time. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it. | Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) |
| When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream? | Rene Descartes (1596-1650) |
| Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| There's always some aftermath, good and bad, makes-me-happy or makes-me-unhappy, for anything we choose to do. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly. | Richard Bach (1936-) |
| After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings. | Richard Dawkins |
| You don't worry about that. | Richard Groover, III |
| If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea. | Richard Hofstadter |
| Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another. | Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) |
| The most important thing for us is to save lives. | Rick Perry |
| Risk-taking, trust, and serendipity are key ingredients of joy. Without risk, nothing new ever happens. Without trust, fear creeps in. Without serendipity, there are no surprises. | Rita Golden Gelman |
| Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again. | Robert Brault |
| How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! | Robert Browning (1812-1889) |
| What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. | Robert Burton (1577-1640) |
| I shall be telling this with a sigh - Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard. | Robert Frost (1874-1963) |
| If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. | Robert Fulghum (1937-) |
| One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. | Robert Fulghum (1937-) |
| Life is but a moment, death also is but another. | Dr. Robert H. Schuller (1926-) |
| To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming is the only end of life. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means. | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |
| Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. | Robert Orben (1927-) |
| We do not own this place, we are just passengers | Robert Redford (1937-) |
| Oh it is good to ride and run,To roam the greenwood wild and free;To hunt, to idle in the sun,To leap into the laughing sea | Robert Service (1874-1958) |
| People who take responsibility for all they create are able to quickly sort truth from fiction in their lives, and in the communication they're receiving from those around them, by using the simple litmus test of “based on results.” Wishing and hoping, reasons and excuses will never tell you the truth. If you say you intend to have a happy marriage, have you got one? If you say you want to earn a degree from a good university, have you done it? If you say you want ten million dollars, do you have it? If you don't have what you say you want, then how come? You've either got the results you say you want, or you have reasons to explain why not. Developing a rigorous and honest relationship with results moves you powerfully toward creating your extraordinary life. | Robert White |
| Human beings have used their incredible abilities to develop a staggering array of limiting beliefs, justifications and excuses for every occasion. What a waste! | Robert White |
| It may come as a severe shock if you haven’t given much thought to this subject before—but our precious, cast-in-stone, ‘objective’ beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself. | Robert White |
| In the matter of stepping up to our true potential, everybody wants to go to heaven and nobody wants to die. We want all the goodies without paying the price. | Robert White |
| Responsibility is not the Truth with a capital T. It’s a point of view which I can choose to take regarding all of the events in my life. If I choose to approach life from the responsible point of view, it means giving up my excuses, my avoidances, all the manipulative games I play when I feel like a victim. In return, what I gain is freedom, clarity, and the empowering experience of being in control and in charge of my life. | Robert White |
| These days, awareness and three dollars will get you a cappuccino – no more. As vital as awareness is to the process of improving your life, to suddenly be awake and aware means nothing if you simply leave it at that. Awareness only matters if it impacts my actions. | Robert White |
| Intellectually, we know for certain that we are on this planet for a very brief period, yet we tend to live as if we were going to live forever, as if there were no end to our life or to the lives of our friends and family. This not-so-subtle denial of death persists throughout our lives, unless we are lucky enough to get a dramatic, usually painful and invariably life-changing wake-up call. The moments of our lives are ephemeral gifts, and we can not afford to miss even one of them. Happily, you don't have to wait for a painful wake-up call. You can notice the miracle of your life right now. Awareness is a choice. | Robert White |
| Our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments are, simply put, our attitudes, opinions, beliefs and judgments. They are not universal truths. | Robert White |
| People who live from abundance feel that there is more than enough of everything in the world to go around. More than enough money, food, work, material things, more than enough love. Why do they feel that way? Because they see that they themselves are enough. They are not dependent on external influences to make them feel more whole and complete. | Robert White |
| Choosing to live an extraordinary life is simple. This does not, however, mean that it is easy. | Robert White |
| In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different. | Robert White |
| There can be no transformation, no awakening, without the ‘here and now’ experience of life, which involves all of our being, not just our intellect. | Robert White |
| When you boil it down, life is made up of our minute-to-minute experiences. And once we begin to become more aware, at some point we discover a fundamental truth: life is not positive or negative, it just is. | Robert White |
| If there are no miracles then we need to find another word for the existence of life – the existence of you and me – on earth. Call it a gift from spirit (God or god in whatever form works for you), serendipity, happenstance or plain good fortune. I invite you to look at your life as if it were a miracle. To treat your life in any other way seems to me to be a terrible waste of your unique presence on this planet. | Robert White |
| My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous and deserve to live an extraordinary life. Fake it if you must and keep faking it until it’s real to you. The gift you will be giving yourself is a lifelong journey of discovery, one that is infinite and infinitely rewarding. Begin the journey. Today. This moment. Now. | Robert White |
| All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations. | Robert White |
| Technology is changing our lives. It cannot and will not change what is fundamental to the human condition. It will never change the way we are, or how we feel. The more technology we create, the more we seem confused, side-tracked with what we are conned into believing will improve our lives in the future. Always the future. Anything to get us off thinking about who we are right now, and how we might make our relationships more rewarding and loving. Too many times, all of that is put on hold. | Robert White |
| There is no certainty; there is only adventure. | Roberto Assagioli |
| Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Life is just a bowl of pits. | Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004) |
| I believe if life gives you lemons make lemonade…then find someone that life gave vodka to and have a party. | Ron White |
| You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. | Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) |
| Life gets better when you embrace your geekiness | Rose McGowan (1973-) |
| Life is a game and true love is a trophy. | Rufus Wainwright (1973-) |
| I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily. | Russell Page |
| The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. | Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) |
| Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the rule. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life is not an exact science, it is an art. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Why, life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Life is but thought; so think I will, That youth and I are house mates still | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) |
| Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties. | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| A change in attitude can change your life! | Sasha Azevedo |
| When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impactupon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live. | Sasha Azevedo |
| While we are postponing, life speeds by. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Life should be like the precious metals, weigh much in little bulk | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| As long as you live, keep learning how to live. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Life is warfare. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their very haste confuses them | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive. | Serj Tankian |
| Life is not all about sex. [Samantha] | Sex and the City |
| And the tree was happy | Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) |
| When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| Life as we find it, is too hard for us: it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it, we cannot dispense with palliative measures…There are three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitute satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances which make us insensitive to it. | Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) |
| It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying | Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) |
| The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care | Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) |
| Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days. | Sir Thomas Malory (1470-) |
| One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum | Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) |
| An unexamined life is not worth living. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be thy deeds; and such as thy deeds will be thy life | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| Beware the barrenness of a busy life. | Sokrates (470 f.Kr.-399 f.Kr.) |
| I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. | Sophia Loren (1934-) |
| The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. | Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| Life without a friend is like death without a witness | Spanish Proverb |
| " Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."--- Copyright © 2000 Stacey Charter | Stacey Charter |
| " Life can be like a roller coaster...And just when you think you've had enough,and your ready to get off the ride and take the calm, easy merry-go round...You change your mind, throw you hands in the air and ride the roller coaster all over again.That's exhilaration...that's living a bit on the edge...that's being ALIVE."--- Copyright © 1999 Stacey Charter | Stacey Charter |
| Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour | Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) |
| Boy, life takes a long time to live | Stephen Wright (1955-) |
| My advice for posterity? Live by principle - that's all. | Steve Wallace |
| There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live -- there is no greater lover than this. | Steven Curtis Chapman (1962-) |
| This is life we've been given, made to be lived out, so...live out loud. | Steven Curtis Chapman (1962-) |
| Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. | Susan Sontag (1933-2004) |
| We may live for a hundred years, but not one moment of these hundred years can be returned, not even if we are prepared to pay millions of dollars. We cannot add a moment, nor can we get a moment back. If time is money, we should just consider how much money we have lost. | Swami Prabhupada |
| Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realize the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself. | Swami Sivananda (1887-1963) |
| What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors? | Sydney Smith (1771-) |
| And to make an end is to make a beginning. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| Where is the Life we have lost in living? | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| You shouldn't believe everything. What you see isn't always right. Is what you think truly right? Please, think about it again. A heart that obediently accepts things is fine, but shouldn't you question something just once? The truth is in a place you can't see. | Takehito Koyasu (1965-) |
| To be free is to have achieved your life. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Death is one moment, and life is so many of them | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it. | Terry Goodkind |
| Time passes and you must move onHalf the distance takes you twice as longSo you keep on singing for the sake of the song. | The Eagles |
| Same dances in the same old shoesYou get too careful with the steps you chooseYou don't care about winningBut You don't want to lose. | The Eagles |
| I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing slips. You stumble. And sometimes you grab what's close to you and hold on as tight as you can. | The Wonder Years |
| The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive. | Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-) |
| Life is about climbing the steps with no foundation; we need to lay it as we go! | Thilagavathy Somasundaram |
| Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. | Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) |
| Life is itself but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God. | Thomas Browne, Sr. |
| Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do. | Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) |
| Business is the salt of life | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short | Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) |
| The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he has known nothing but what has passed under his own eye | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| A step to the left can change your world. | Thomas Murray |
| Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. | Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) |
| My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores,Cry a little less, laugh a little more.Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear,Figure out just what I’m doing here. | Tim McGraw (1967-) |
| I went sky divin', I went rocky mountain climbin', I went 2.7 seconds on a bull name Fumanchu.And I loved deeper, And I spoke sweeter, And I gave forgiveness I've been denying, And he said someday I hope you get the chance,To live like you were dyin'. | Tim McGraw (1967-) |
| Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. | Titus Maccius Plautus (250 f.Kr.-184 f.Kr.) |
| Life isn't about living without problems.Life is about solving problems. | Tom Krause (1934-) |
| Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect. | Tom Stoppard (1937-) |
| If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit. | Tori Amos (1963-) |
| Why am I Dying to Live, When I'm just Living to Die, Why am I Trying to see when there ain't nothing in sight, Why am I Trying to Give when no one Gives me a try. | Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) |
| Life's a wheel of fortune and it's my chance to spin it | Tupac Shakur (1971-1996) |
| I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may. | Tyler Durden |
| Their lives are bigger than any big idea | U2 |
| Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... Just one. Our life. We have nothing else. | Ugo Betti (1892-1953) |
| I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again. | General Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) |
| The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next | Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) |
| If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. | Ursula K. LeGuin (1929-) |
| LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order. | Vanna Bonta |
| In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Life is a voyage. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| There is nothing like a dream to create the future. | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. | Victoria Holt (1906-) |
| We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone | Viggo Mortensen (1958-) |
| Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward. | Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) |
| For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment. | Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) |
| There may be a time in life when one is tired of everything and feels as if all one does is wrong, and there maybe some truth in it- do you think this is a feeling one must try to forget and to banish, or is it 'the longing for God,' which one must not fear, but cherish to see if it may bring us some good? Is it 'the longing for God' which leads us to make a choice which we never regret? Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| It is true that every day has its own evil, and its good too. But how difficult must life be, especially farther on when the evil of each day increases as far as worldly things go, if it is not strengthened and comforted by faith. And in Christ all worldly things may become better, and, as it were, sanctified. Theo, woe is me if I do not preach the Gospel; if I did not aim at that and possess faith and hope in Christ, it would be bad for me indeed, but no I have some courage. | Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) |
| Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| Life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning | Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) |
| Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. | Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) |
| Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty. | W. C. Fields (1880-1946) |
| When I look back at the three or four choices in my life which have been decisive, I find that, at the time I made them, I had very little sense of the seriousness of what I was doing and only later did I discover what had seemed an unimportant brook | W. H. Auden (1907-1973) |
| It may be that the ignorant man, alone, has any chance to mate his life with life | Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) |
| I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. | Walt Disney (1901-1966) |
| Life is a school of probability | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. | Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) |
| I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be. | Walter F. Mondale (1928-) |
| Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored. | Wayne Dyer (1940-1940) |
| Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| We are more than what we do . . . much more than what we accomplish . . . far more than what we possess. | William Arthur Ward |
| Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Life moves out of a red flare of dreams into a common light of common hours, until old age bring the red flare again. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. | William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) |
| Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps 'til the legend, 'over steep ways to the stars,' fulfills self. | William C. Doane (1832-1913) |
| Oh that those lips had language! Life has passed With me but roughly since I heard thee last | William Cowper (1731-1800) |
| Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home. | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. | William James (1842-1910) |
| A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands. | William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) |
| We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. | William Osler (1849-1919) |
| Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| Life is a joke that's just begun. | William S. Gilbert (1836-1911) |
| In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite variety and mystery of it. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| The time of life is short; to spend that shortness basely were too long | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Me thinks he doth protest too much. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Mine honor is my life; both grow in one; Take honor from me, and my life is done. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. | Wilma Rudolph (1940-1994) |
| The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing. | Winifred Holtby (1898-) |
| Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Life is hard for insects. And don't think mice are having any fun either. | Woody Allen (1935-) |
| Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek. | Xavier Rudd |
| Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing | Yiddish Proverb |
| Freedom requires that you discover your own inner language - your own life rules - your own vision. | Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen |
| Life is like a dance one must know when to move and when not to, and never to hesitate. | Zephyr Bloch-Jorgensen |
| You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want | Zig Ziglar |
| When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you | Zig Ziglar |