LIFE QUOTES VII

quotations about life

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Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event can we say: this was our own choosing. We happen upon careers, necessity pushing, blind inclination pulling. If we stop to think we are amazed that we should be what we are.

WALTER LIPPMANN

Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest


Do not take life too seriously--you will never get out of it alive.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

JOE BIDEN

Promises to Keep

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I believe that this life is a journey home. Someone is calling us, someone we know as God, and whom others know by different names.

JAMES BEHRENS

Newton Citizen, May 19, 2016


Our life is what we make it. An insignificant game or a noble trial; a dream or a reality; a play of the senses worn out in selfish use, and flying "swifter than a weaver's shuttle," or an ascension of the soul, by daily duties and unfaltering faith, to more spiritual relations and to loftier toils.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Life is the great teacher.

JAMES JOYCE

Ulysses


Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.

ZIG ZIGLAR

See You at the Top

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Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

ERIC BERNE

What Do You Say After You Say Hello?

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Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

RICHARD LE GALLIENNE

"The Dramatic Art of Life", Prose Fancies


Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

RUMI

attributed, When the Moon Slips Away: Rejoicing in Everyday Miracles

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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

CHARLES DE LINT

The Ivory and the Horn

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What is the course of the life
Of mortal men on the earth?--
Most men eddy about
Here and there--eat and drink,
Chatter and love and hate,
Gather and squander, are raised
Aloft, are hurl'd in the dust,
Striving blindly, achieving
Nothing; and, then they die--
Perish; and no one asks
Who or what they have been,
More than he asks what waves
In the moonlit solitudes mild
Of the midmost Ocean, have swell'd,
Foam'd for a moment, and gone.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Rugby Chapel

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The heart is like an instrument whose strings
Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

GERALD MASSEY

"Wedded Love"

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Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Lectures on the Philosophy of History

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Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time.

STEPHEN VINCENT BENET

A Child is Born

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Life is a constant education.

JESSICA REES

"It's vital that we rebuild local jazz...", Bridport & Lyme Regis News, September 1, 2016


Let us all so live as we shall wish we had lived when we come to die; for that only is well, that ends well.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

Simon the Jester

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