Quotes
Quotes about Life
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive. -Bugs Bunny.
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance. -Unknown.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -Unknown.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.
Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence. Every person in this life has something to teach me - and as soon as I accept that, I open myself to truly listening. -John Lahr.
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force...When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life...When we listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us so that we never get tired of each other...and it is this little creative fountain inside us that begins to spring and cast up new thoughts and unexpected laughter and wisdom. ...Well, it is when people really listen to us, with quiet facinated attention, that the little fountain begins to work again, to accelerate in the most surprising way. -Brenda Ueland.
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk. -D.J. Kaufman.
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. -James Nathan Miller.
This life's dim windows of the soul. Distorts the heavens from pole to pole. And leads you to believe a lie when you see with, not through, the eye.
Five miles meandering with mazy motion, Through dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Poetry is life distilled.
Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
How do you live a long life? "Take a two- mile walk every morning before breakfast."
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
