Quotes 26

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.~ Arthur Rimbaud ~

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.~ Antoine Rivarol ~

· In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.~ Will Rogers ~

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~

· Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.~ Arthur Rubenstein ~

· Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.~ Bertrand Russell ~

· Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.~ Lady R. Russell ~

· There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.~ Harrison Salisbury ~

· Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.~ Paul Santaguida ~

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, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.~ George Santayana ~

· Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

· Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.~ David A. Schmaltz ~Life is warfare.~ Seneca ~

· Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.~ William Shakespeare ~

· Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.~ George Bernard Shaw ~

· Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~

· There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.~ Carol Shields ~

· Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.~ Lynard Skynard ~

· There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.~ Logan Pearsall Smith ~

· The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.~ Socrates ~

· Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.~ John Steinbeck ~

· We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~

· When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

· Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.~ Robert Thibodeau ~

· If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.~ Henry David Thoreau ~

· He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.~ Johann Ludwig Tieck ~

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end~ Source Unknown ~

· Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.~ Source Unknown ~

· One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.~ Source Unknown ~

· The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.~ Source Unknown ~

· To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.~ Source Unknown ~

· The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.~ Denis Waitley ~

· Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.~ William A. Ward ~

· The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.~ Oscar Wilde ~

· Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.~ Stuart Wilde ~

· If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.~ Alfonso The Wise ~