Life: A life without cause is a life without effect. ~Barbarella
Life: A man who has work that suits him and a wife, whom he loves, has squared his accounts with life. ~Friedrich Hegel
Life: After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important. ~Robert Brault
Life: 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
Life: All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash. ~Ovid
Life: All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. ~Havelock Ellis
Life: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. ~Agnes' Law
Life: Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence. ~Joseph Wood Krutch
Life: Any idiot can face a crisis — it's day to day living that wears you out. ~Anton Chekhov
Life: As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. ~Author Unknown
Life: As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point your way. ~Author unknown
Life: 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
Life: Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious something is, the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world; and the more we love it, the more we are saddened that it is like finely powdered salt that runs away through the fingers, or is puffed away by the wind, or is washed away by the rain. ~Louis de Bernieres
Life: Behold he glideth down the banister of life and findeth it strewn with the splinters of torture. ~John Collins
Life: Believe me, when in your distress you think of Abelard you will not look with the same eye... you will feel that the human reason can cure illusions but not sorrows; that God has use for Reason but He has not made her the sister of Charity.... You will look about you for something like hope, you will shake the doors of churches to see if they still swing, but you will find them walled up... destiny will mock at you and for reply give you a bottle of wine.... ~Alfred de Musset
Life: 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
Life: Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. ~Ovid
Life: Different shades of life make the painting more beautiful. ~Mike Dolan
Life: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ~Mark Twain
Life: 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: Each day of human life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design — do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things. ~Morihei Ueshiba
Life: 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
Life: Even if you make a mistake, make it part of the dance and move on. ~Dance saying
Life: Ever get the feeling that sometime early in life there was a briefing you missed? ~Robert Brault
Life: Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ~Norman Mailer
Life: Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up. ~Leonard Jacobson
Life: 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: Existence rightly considered is a fair compromise between two instincts - the instinct of hoping one day to live, and the instinct to live here and now. ~Arnold Bennett
Life: Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian. ~Dennis Wholey
Life: Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. ~Antonio Porchia
Life: 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: Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist. ~Karen Horney
Life: 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
Life: God gives you a life and says, Okay, what are you going to do with it? ~Alice Cooper, interview with Cal Fussman, 2008 August 2nd, for Esquire's January 2009 eighth annual Meaning of Life issue
Life: God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled. ~Author Unknown
Life: God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. ~Garrison Keillor
Life: Half of life is [f@%'ing] up, the other half is dealing with it. ~Henry Rollins
Life: Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers? ~Jean Anouilh
Life: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Life: He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
Life: Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. ~Richard Bach
Life: Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. ~Frederick Buechner
Life: How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives. ~Robert Brault
Life: How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B. ~Nelson DeMille
Life: However we sail on the ocean of life our course is determined by Nature's trade-winds and Divinity's undertow. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust — we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper. ~Albert Einstein
Life: I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. ~Audrey Hepburn
Life: I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. ~A.A. Milne
Life: I don't need to live a long time. I just want to live a good time. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. ~Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life: I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. ~François Truffaut
Life: I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer.... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me. ~Richard Phillips Feynman
Life: I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away. ~Antonio Porchia
Life: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. ~T.S. Eliot
Life: I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. ~Jack Handey
Life: I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. ~Rupert Brooke
Life: I live! Red life boils in my veins, earth yields beneath my feet, in the glow of love I embrace trees and statues, and they live in my embrace. Every woman is to me the gift of a world. I revel in the melody of her countenance, and with a single glance of my eye I can enjoy more than others with their every limb through all their lives. ~Heinrich Heine
Life: I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it. ~Daniel
Life: 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
Life: I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. ~Bill Watterson
Life: 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
Life: I teach you to know the wonder and the mystery of existence — not to analyse it but to enjoy it, not to make a theory out of it but to make a dance out of it. The whole existence is dancing, except men. They have become a big graveyard. I am calling you to come out of your graves. ~Osho
Life: 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
Life: I think I've discovered the secret of life — you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
Life: I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see. ~Peggy Noonan
Life: I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault
Life: I've learned never to be surprised if what must inevitably happen happens right now. ~Robert Brault
Life: 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
Life: If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. ~Confucius
Life: If life is not an adventure it's a sad venture, and drear at the price. After all life is after all; it is not what you make it, but what it makes you. ~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander
Life: If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ~E.B. White
Life: If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton
Life: In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. ~Diego Marchi
Life: In life we are all rolling stock running on the rails of Destiny, and if we fail to stop when flagged by Fate we miss our freight. On Life's railroad there is only one set of rails and no turntable. But why turn back; the scene improves as we travel onward; or we appreciate it better; that is, those who keep their eyes to the window. But there are some who would rather sleep than peep, and some who are so occupied with their ingrown eyebrows, their over-investments and under-devestments, the price of lead-headed eye-teeth, and the fate of the fat, that they are blind to the beauty of Being. Life should be like a train - eager, pressing forward as if bent on keeping a tryst with Time round the next bend; taking the grades sturdily, and running to Time.... A train is life in little, existence on distance, a fleeting thought, and a forward move. ~Kenneth Alfred Evelyn Alexander
Life: In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. ~Kathy Norris
Life: In such a complicated machine as this world of ours, in spite of our own little contributory efforts, we must, as regards the principal thing, it seems to me, be always gamblers in a lottery. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life: In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
Life: In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. ~Robert Brault
Life: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
Life: It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life: It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks
Life: It just seems sometimes that you've lived your whole life preparing for an inspection that never happened. ~Robert Brault
Life: It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson
Life: It's just life. Just live it. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~Hans Christian Andersen
Life: LIFE.-A masked ball, where, in struggling through the crowd, and trying to penetrate the disguise of our neighbor, we are apt to forget our own part, until the waning lights warn us of the time to depart. ~A Chapter of Definitions
Life: Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life: Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D'haese
Life: Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ~George Bernard Shaw
Life: Life grows beautiful flowers over old scars. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. ~Søren Kierkegaard
Life: Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life: Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! ~Jeb Dickerson
Life: Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is a cement trampoline. ~Howard Nordberg
Life: Life is a collection of moments you would have appreciated more if you had only known they were moments. ~Robert Brault
Life: 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: Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. ~Christopher Morley
Life: Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~Danny Kaye
Life: Life is a horizontal fall. ~Jean Cocteau
Life: Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie
Life: Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
Life: Life is a long road on a short journey. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: Life is a mortal maze, and only a few truly find their way. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is a series of collisions with the future. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life: Life is a series of ever-changing color, and each day has its hue of romance. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is a series of reactions that aren't what you intend, to situations that aren't what they seem. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. ~R.D. Laing
Life: Life is a surprise party. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer
Life: Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life is abundance, as in nature when all conditions are right the tree bears fruit. ~Mike Dolan
Life: Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity... ~Heinrich Heine
Life: Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life is an inconstant mix of aces and jokers, and often one is flipped face up when we're expecting the other. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is an incurable Disease. ~Abraham Cowley
Life: Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: 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
Life: Life is great. Don't let circumstances and society fool you into believing it's not. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert
Life: Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. ~Timothy Fuller
Life: Life is just a way to distract us from life until we die. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is just one damned thing after another! ~Author unknown
Life: Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart. ~H. Ross Perot
Life: Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. ~Lillian Dickson
Life: Life is like a fancy restaurant - it will always try to seat you at the worst table you will accept. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
Life: Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker
Life: Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Life: Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes. ~Luigi Pirandello
Life: Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand
Life: Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault
Life: Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. ~Ogden Nash
Life: Life is not like a box of chocolates. It's more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination. ~Christopher Isherwood
Life: Life is not writ neatly with a steady hand between the prescriptive lines of a uniform, copy-book page; it is chaotic at the core - full of false starts, cross-outs, misspellings, and unsightly blotches. It is inherently messy. ~Dr. Idel Dreimer
Life: Life is one big judgment call. (And a neverending series of little ones.) ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Life is simple, it's just not easy. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Life: 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. ~Seneca
Life: Life is the game that must be played. ~Edwin Arlington Robinson
Life: Life is the hyphen between matter and spirit. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Life: Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
Life: Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~Grandma Moses
Life: Life isn't fair, but it's still good. ~Author Unknown
Life: Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. ~Colin Neenan
Life: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go." ~Maya Angelou
Life: Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Life: Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Life: Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. ~Author unknown
Life: Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on. ~Robert Brault
Life: 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
Life: 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
Life: Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~Jerome K. Jerome
Life: Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.
Life: Life: my own little Pyrrhic victory. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: 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.
Life: Life's a party. Invite yourself. ~Gary Johnson
Life: Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly
Life: Lifeless with a heartbeat. ~Daniel
Life: Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way around. ~David Lodge
Life: Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. ~Author unknown
Life: Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. ~Mel Brooks
Life: Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies. ~William Benton Clulow
Life: Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~Arthur Miller
Life: Mayhap the best thing I ever done in my life was only doing what was easiest for myself. It's allays been easier for me to work nor to sit still, but the real tough job for me 'ud be to master my own will and temper, and go right against my own pride.... perhaps 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
Life: 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
Life: 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
Life: My friend asked me the essence of life and I smiled. ~Mike Dolan
Life: My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ~Louis Adamic
Life: My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot. ~Ashleigh Brilliant
Life: My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. ~Robert Brault
Life: 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
Life: No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made silently. ~Agnes de Mille
Life: Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ~Brendan Gill
Life: Not unfortunately the universe is wild — game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood
Life: Numerous metaphors have been used to describe life. Among them is the metaphor of life as a battle. Try not to think of life in these terms because, if you regard life as a struggle, it will become one, and you will have little joy. It is far better to think of life as a journey in which the difficulties are hills to climb. The hills are there for a reason (even if you don't know what that reason is), and the sense of satisfaction after climbing the hill is almost always worth the effort. ~Richard E. Turner (1937-2011), The Grammar Curmudgeon, a.k.a. "The Mudge,"
Life: One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. ~, Beverly Donofrio
Life: One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him. ~Lemony Snicket
Life: Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler
Life: Opportunities and duties are the warp and woof of life. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: Our search should not be a flight from life. ~TKV Desikachar
Life: Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia
Life: People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Life: 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
Life: Perhaps we are looking at this from a wrong perspective; this search for the truth, the meaning of life, the reason of God. We all have this mindset that the answers are so complex and so vast that it is almost impossible to comprehend. I think, on the contrary, that the answers are so simple; so simple that it is staring us straight in the face, screaming its lungs out, and yet we fail to notice it. We're looking through a telescope, searching the stars for the answer, when the answer is actually a speck of dirt on the telescope lens. ~Jason Q.
Life: Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism. ~Anton Chekhov
Life: Red life boils in my veins.... Every woman is to me the gift of a world.... I hear a thousand nightingales.... I could eat all the elephants of Hindostan and pick my teeth with the spire of Strasburg Cathedral.... Life is the greatest of blessings, and death the worst of evils... ~Excerpts from Heinrich Heine's
Life: Sacrifice is stamped upon every created thing. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West
Life: Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to? ~Robert Brault
Life: Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ~Antonio Porchia
Life: Sliding down the banister of life is so much more fun than ambling down the steps. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Sliding down the banister of life, man is stuck with the splinters of disappointment. When he reaches the bottom he is jabbed against the post of destruction. ~W.T. McAtee
Life: Some men in their passage through life resemble a frog: they go a little and stop a little-but always by fits and starts, jerks and jumps. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard
Life: Step. Stumble. Dance! ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen
Life: Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week. ~Joseph Addison
Life: 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
Life: The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller
Life: The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson
Life: The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. ~Marcus Aurelius
Life: The banister of life is full of splinters, and he slideth down it with rapidity. ~Scott Way
Life: The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. ~H.L. Mencken
Life: The blanket of life is kind and warm for those who can find its snuggle. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
Life: The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps
Life: The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. ~Joseph Campbell
Life: The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ~John, Viscount Morley
Life: The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Life: The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie
Life: The line of life is a snarl of loops and ends. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: 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
Life: The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
Life: The movement of life has to rest in its own music. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Life: The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy. ~Angelina Jolie
Life: The plane of life is a frozen sea, on which all make many slips, and finally break through into eternity. ~James Lendall Basford
Life: The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ~Henry David Thoreau
Life: The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your computer. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. ~Thomas Carlyle
Life: The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. ~Heywood Broun
Life: 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
Life: The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. ~Peter De Vries
Life: The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen
Life: The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. ~W. Somerset Maugham
Life: The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. ~Vladimir Nabokov
Life: There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes. ~Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life: 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: There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically — that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. ~Robert Brault
Life: There is a reason you were born and a bunch of things you've got to do today regardless. ~Robert Brault
Life: There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps
Life: 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
Life: There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit. ~Robert Brault
Life: There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement
Life: There is no wealth but life. ~John Ruskin
Life: There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Life: Things almost never turn out as horribly - or as wonderfully - as it seems they will. It's the occasional exception to this that keeps us on our toes, both in hope and in dread. ~David C. Hill
Life: Thoreau once thought the moon was larger over the United States than over the Old World, the sky bluer, the stars brighter, the thunder louder, the rivers longer, the mountains higher, the prairies vaster, and he mystically concluded that the spirit of man in America should be larger and more expansive "else why was America discovered?" Thoreau was wrong, and Thoreau was right. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. ~Lin Yutang
Life: Though the circular round-and-round of routine be the bulk of life's affairs, make an occasional jutting diversion — of fun, love, or something that will outlast you — so the shape and motion of your life shall resemble the round lifegiving sun with bright rays shining forth from all directions. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. ~Baker Brownell
Life: To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Life: To drink the sunshine and to dream at night.... ~Author Unknown
Life: To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. ~Samuel Butler
Life: To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. ~Emily Dickinson
Life: To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. ~Havelock Ellis
Life: 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: To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. ~Reba McEntire
Life: To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question." ~Robert Brault
Life: Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Dr. Seuss
Life: Today, fill your cup of life with sunshine and laughter. ~Dodinsky
Life: Unbeing dead isn't being alive. ~e.e. cummings
Life: Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work — that goes on, it adds up. ~Barbara Kingsolver
Life: We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse. ~Author Unknown
Life: We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Life: We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. ~Paul Eldridge
Life: We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. ~Stacy
Life: We take a step, then we stumble. The joy in life comes when we make a dance out of both. ~Rich Turner
Life: We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself. ~Antonio Porchia
Life: What if you stumble? Do what any choeographer would instruct you to do: Make it part of the dance. ~Peter A. Wish
Life: 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: What's your life's motto? Write one. And live by it. And revise it when life revises you. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: 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: When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy - it's life. ~Terri Guillemets
Life: 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
Life: When life gives you lemonade, make lemons. Life will be all like, "What?!" ~"Phil's-osophy" by Phil Dunphy
Life: When life throws you lemons, make orange juice. It will leave them wondering how the hell you did that. ~Author Unknown
Life: When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children, when we know love in our own hearts; or when, like the Japanese poet, Basho, we hear an old frog land in a quiet pond with a solitary splash — at such times the awakening, the turning inside out of all values, the "newness," the emptiness and the purity of vision that make themselves evident, all these provide a glimpse of the cosmic dance. ~Thomas Merton
Life: When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. ~Mark Twain
Life: When you stumble make it part of the dance.... Everyone messes up. It's part of the dance of life.... So the next time you stumble, smile at the crowd, kick up your heels, and dance a jig! The moment you embrace it as your own, no one will know it's not part of your dance. ~Suzy Toronto
Life: When you stumble, make it part of the dance. ~Author unknown, internet circulation circa 2006
Life: 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
Life: Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one? ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Life: Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it. ~Barbara Kingsolver
Life: Why torture yourself when life'll do it for you? ~Author Unknown
Life: Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia
Life: You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you can realize that your life is the miracle. ~Robert Brault
Life: 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: You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. ~Robert Brault
Life: You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. ~Quentin Crisp
Life: You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams
Life: You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. ~Robert Brault
Life: You will find the boat easier to pull then, and it will not be so liable to upset, and it will not matter so much if it does upset; good, plain merchandise will stand water. You will have time to think as well as to work. Time to drink in life's sunshine—time to listen to the Æolian music that the wind of God draws from the human heart-strings around us... ~Jerome K. Jerome
Life: 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