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Quotes about Life


Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

Everett Dirksen

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

George Santayana

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

Germaine Greer

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson

To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of the lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Benjamin Franklin

Remember, life is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you. Everyone dies, but not everyone fully lives. Too many people are having "near-life experiences.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

William Somerset Maugham

A pessimist is one who is seasick on the entire voyage of life.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Eric Butterworth

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they life about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to other animals as well as humans, it is all a sham.

Anna Sewell [Black Beauty]

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw

This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right.

Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers

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

Sarah Bernhardt

The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is that they haven't attempted to contact us.

Bill Watterson

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Kant

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Albert Einstein

This is my rule of married life: it's better to be happy than to be right.

Click & Clack, the Tappet Brothers

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

There must be more to life than sitting wondering if there is more to life.

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