Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 19



Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.
Elbert Hubbard

It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton John Sheen

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Thornton Wilder

Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Adam Lindsay Gordon

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
Ovid

Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde

My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends –
It gives a lovely light.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I’ve enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
Sean O’Casey

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.
Mark Twain

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
Aristotle

Those who wish to sing, always find a song.
Swedish Proverb

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Life is a means of Life is a gamble fiction.
Robert Stone

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
P. L. Debevoise

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi

Service is the very purpose of life. It is the rent we pay for living on the planet.
Marian Wright Edelman

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde

Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.
Alexis

The next chapter of my life is always more interesting than the last one.
Michael Lipsey

Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.
Anonymous

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. Eliot

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one’s own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
Chin-Ning Chu

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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