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Quotes about Life


Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

Joseph Joubert

You've got to keep fighting—you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Elia Kazan

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Stephen Butler Leacock

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Sam Levinson

Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Cardinal Newman

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy—I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

Bertrand Russel

Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

Herbert Spencer

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanisms of the universe.

Alfred North Whitehead

Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing.

Yiddish Proverb

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

Life is a cement trampoline.

Howard Nordberg

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -B. C. Forbes.

B. C. Forbes

Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell.

Florida Scott-maxwell

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. -Carl Sandburg.

Carl Sandburg

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.

Anthony J. D'angelo

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnet, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

Josh Billings

Life is made up of interruptions.

William S. Gilbert

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

Oh for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.

John Keats

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

D.h. Lawrence

Life throws you curve balls, but you either learn to swerve them or hit them like there is no tomorrow.

Sadie Christman

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