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| Quotes About Life |
When compiling his great dictionary, the young Noah Webster travels to the Himalayas, where he climbs to the cave of the world's wisest man. "O, great sage," he says, "tell me the meaning of life." The sage sits Noah at his feet and, with great solemnity, commences to unfold the meaning of life. When finished, he places a hand on the young man's shoulder and says, "Do you have any other questions, my son?" Noah flips a page in his notebook and says, "You wouldn't know the meaning of lift, would you?" ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. ~James Russell Lowell
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen
Not unfortunately the universe is wild — game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. ~Colin Neenan [I wonder if this reminds anyone else of Apple'siOS 7 design or if I'm the only old-fashioned one who misses skeuomorphism. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ~Norman Mailer
Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D'haese
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. ~Søren Kierkegaard
How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B. ~Nelson DeMille, The General's Daughter, 1992
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ~Seneca
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein
I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anaïs Nin
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is a horizontal fall. ~Jean Cocteau
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Dr. Seuss
Mayhap the best thing I ever done in my life was only doing what was easiest for myself. It's allays been easier for me to work nor to sit still, but the real tough job for me 'ud be to master my own will and temper, and go right against my own pride.... perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede
Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The movement of life has to rest in its own music. ~Rabindranath Tagore
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller
Life is a series of reactions that aren't what you intend, to situations that aren't what they seem. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up. ~Leonard Jacobson
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically — that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [It ends: "As a doctor you'll have a front seat."—tεᖇᖇ¡·g]
Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. ~Terri Guillemets
Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! ~Jeb Dickerson,jebdickerson.com
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, "Stand"
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton
Things almost never turn out as horribly — or as wonderfully — as it seems they will. It's the occasional exception to this that keeps us on our toes, both in hope and in dread. ~David C. Hill, ***Dave Does the Blog (hill-kleerup.org/blog)
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.... ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, "Inspiration"
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps
[W]ith reference to our trip up the river of life.... How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things which they think essential to the pleasure and comfort of the trip, but which are really only useless lumber....
It is lumber, man—all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment's freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment's rest for dreamy laziness—no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o'er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.
Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
You will find the boat easier to pull then, and it will not be so liable to upset, and it will not matter so much if it does upset; good, plain merchandise will stand water. You will have time to think as well as to work. Time to drink in life's sunshine—time to listen to the Æolian music that the wind of God draws from the human heart-strings around us... ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. ~Vladimir Nabokov
The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your computer. ~Terri Guillemets
Thoreau once thought the moon was larger over the United States than over the Old World, the sky bluer, the stars brighter, the thunder louder, the rivers longer, the mountains higher, the prairies vaster, and he mystically concluded that the spirit of man in America should be larger and more expansive "else why was America discovered?" Thoreau was wrong, and Thoreau was right. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. ~Lin Yutang, On the Wisdom of America
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy — it's life. ~Terri Guillemets
Life is a long process of getting tired. ~Samuel Butler
I really enjoy life I'm just not good at it. ~Daniel, @blindedpoet
He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. ~Moroccan Proverb
The kaleidoscope of colour which is my life, shows the interesting choices I've made along the way. ~Antie Koekie
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum
I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~Henry Ward Beecher
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied. ~Douglas Adams
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? ~George Bernard Shaw
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. ~Robert Frost
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schulz
There is no finish line. ~Nike advertisement
It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect. ~Sherwood Anderson
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. ~Ludwig Wittgenstein
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain. ~Thomas Jefferson
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. ~Vita Sackville-West
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ~William Lyon Phelps
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean. ~James Russell Lowell
In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. ~Charlie Brown
The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen
Not unfortunately the universe is wild — game-flavoured as a hawk's wing. ~B.P. Blood
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. ~Chinese Proverb
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. ~Douglas Adams
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. ~Colin Neenan [I wonder if this reminds anyone else of Apple's
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit. ~Norman Mailer
Life can be easy, it is only question of choosing between solutions and illusions. ~Didier D'haese
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. ~Learned Hand
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Life is the sum of all your choices. ~Albert Camus
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. ~Søren Kierkegaard
How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B. ~Nelson DeMille, The General's Daughter, 1992
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. ~Seneca
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. ~Albert Einstein
I gave my life to learning how to live.
Now that I have organized it all...
It is just about over.
~Sandra Hochman
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. ~Anaïs Nin
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is a horizontal fall. ~Jean Cocteau
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. ~Dr. Seuss
Mayhap the best thing I ever done in my life was only doing what was easiest for myself. It's allays been easier for me to work nor to sit still, but the real tough job for me 'ud be to master my own will and temper, and go right against my own pride.... perhaps nothing 'ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right. ~George Eliot, Adam Bede
Only a few things are really important. ~Marie Dressler
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. ~Mignon McLaughlin,The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
The movement of life has to rest in its own music. ~Rabindranath Tagore
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~Henry Miller
Life is a series of reactions that aren't what you intend, to situations that aren't what they seem. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Everything that occurs in your life is part of God's plan to wake you up. ~Leonard Jacobson
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. ~Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. ~Woody Allen, "My Speech to the Graduates," Side Effects, 1980
There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically — that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) [It ends: "As a doctor you'll have a front seat."
Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. ~Terri Guillemets
Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! ~Jeb Dickerson,jebdickerson.com
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Few of us write great novels; all of us live them. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out. ~Danny Orton and Blair Daly, "Stand"
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. ~Huey Newton
Things almost never turn out as horribly — or as wonderfully — as it seems they will. It's the occasional exception to this that keeps us on our toes, both in hope and in dread. ~David C. Hill, ***Dave Does the Blog (hill-kleerup.org/blog)
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead
[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.... ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, "Inspiration"
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. ~Phillips Brooks
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. ~Robert Brault,rbrault.blogspot.com
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. ~William Lyon Phelps
[W]ith reference to our trip up the river of life.... How many people, on that voyage, load up the boat till it is ever in danger of swamping with a store of foolish things which they think essential to the pleasure and comfort of the trip, but which are really only useless lumber....
It is lumber, man—all lumber! Throw it overboard. It makes the boat so heavy to pull, you nearly faint at the oars. It makes it so cumbersome and dangerous to manage, you never know a moment's freedom from anxiety and care, never gain a moment's rest for dreamy laziness—no time to watch the windy shadows skimming lightly o'er the shallows, or the glittering sunbeams flitting in and out among the ripples, or the great trees by the margin looking down at their own image, or the woods all green and golden, or the lilies white and yellow, or the sombre-waving rushes, or the sedges, or the orchis, or the blue forget-me-nots.
Throw the lumber over, man! Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
You will find the boat easier to pull then, and it will not be so liable to upset, and it will not matter so much if it does upset; good, plain merchandise will stand water. You will have time to think as well as to work. Time to drink in life's sunshine—time to listen to the Æolian music that the wind of God draws from the human heart-strings around us... ~Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889
The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. ~Vladimir Nabokov
The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your computer. ~Terri Guillemets
Thoreau once thought the moon was larger over the United States than over the Old World, the sky bluer, the stars brighter, the thunder louder, the rivers longer, the mountains higher, the prairies vaster, and he mystically concluded that the spirit of man in America should be larger and more expansive "else why was America discovered?" Thoreau was wrong, and Thoreau was right. There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it, and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself. ~Lin Yutang, On the Wisdom of America
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy — it's life. ~Terri Guillemets
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