Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 16



Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.
Linda Brakeall

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson

I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman

If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.
Peter C. Newman

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
Robert Powell

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages — we don’t throw it away all at once.
Robert A. Cook

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

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins

The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once.
W. C. Gannett

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
J. D. Salinger

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison

Life is one big judgment call.
Terri Guillemets

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.
Les Brown

Live your life and forget your age.
Norman Vincent Peale

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens

Life is sweet.
Proverb

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
Jean De La Bruyere

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
William James

Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
H. T. Leslie

If you love the life you live, you will live a life of love.
Anonymous

Life is a unique combination of “want to” and “how to” and we need to give equal attention to both.
Jim Rohn

Life…is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy , and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
Douglas Adams

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible – not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
Epictetus

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life; one problem after another presents itself and in the solving of them we can find our greatest pleasure.
Kal Menninger

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