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Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham
In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ~Diego Marchi
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
~Robert Browning
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others. ~Jessi Lane Adams
Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you. ~Anonymous
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. ~Albert Camus
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood
The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ~Bruce Crampton
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Let No Charitable Hope
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle
I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945
Give us Lord, a bit o' sun,
A bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
~From an inn in Lancaster, England
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun
Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms
~Terri Guillemets
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wisest man. "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life." The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?" Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?" ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
We're all accidental soldiers in the army of life. ~Ymber Delecto
Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie, http://antiekoekie.co.za
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
Sometimes our hearts get tangled
And our souls a little off-kilter...
~Sera Christann
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson
Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between. ~Terri Guillemets
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen
Not unfortunately the universe is wild - game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood
The world is a sunny success. ~Terri Guillemets
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein
I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anaïs Nin
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
[P]erhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Adam Bede
Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler
