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Quotes about Life


That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

George Santayana

When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?" -Sydney J. Harris

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Robert Byrne

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

Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Sarah Bernhardt

If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what was

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Germaine Greer

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

2 rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

Doust thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Benjamin Franklin

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

Walter Bagehot

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't you hate it when life doesn't follow the manuals?

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.

Montaigne

Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

Comedian John Rogers

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

R. I. Fitzhenry

Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

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

Arthur Ashe

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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