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Quotes about Life


Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Oscar Wilde

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Dan Quayle after the San Francisco earthquake

Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

William James

All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.

Jane Wagner

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Mark Twain

Life is too confusing for novices. We should let the experts take care of it.

The two great tragedies in life: not getting what one wants and getting it.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others?

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living.

Bertie Charles Forbes

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Pierre de Coubertin

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles F. Kettering

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much of life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Thoreau

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition.

What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Goethe

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

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