Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me." ~Erma Bombeck
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~E.B. White
Life is simple, it's just not easy. ~Author Unknown
A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach
Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ~Henry David Thoreau
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley, Thunder on the Left
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
~Robert Frost, "Cluster of Faith," 1962
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp
As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown
I think I've discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller
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
Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown
You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth. ~Charles Johnson
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown
Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg
To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. ~Jeremy Taylor
Life... is like a box of chocolates — a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates. So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game. Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper. ~The X-Files
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer. ~Jim Carrey
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. ~Cary Grant
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis
Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author Unknown
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November 1838
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~Samuel Johnson
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." ~Maya Angelou
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~Author Unknown
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma, 1906
Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays.
~Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám, 1859
Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.
...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. ~Walt Whitman, "O Me! O Life!", Leaves of Grass
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson
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
There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. ~Gioacchino Rossini
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. ~Frederick Buechner
Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault,
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
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
~Robert Browning
Today, fill your cup of life with sunshine and laughter. ~Dodinsky,
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
Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. ~Mike Dolan,
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed 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
I ask of life to shine meaning in everyone who is searching. ~Aurora Hernandez
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,
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
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945, referring to psychoanalysis
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
All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. ~Ovid
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. ~Author Unknown
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,
Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it. ~Daniel,
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie
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
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault,
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
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
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
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
To whoever invented fantasy, redwood trees, and apple pie for breakfast: well done. ~Dr. SunWolf,
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
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
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. ~James Russell Lowell
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. ~Robert Brault,
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
