Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 3
The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
Alexander Pope
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
The time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.
William Shakespeare
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius
In love and life, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.
Anonymous
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
Life is a jest; and all things show it.
I thought so once; but now I know it.
John Gay
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson
Don’t worry about life, you’re not going to survive it anyway.
Anonymous
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states.
John Desmond Bernal
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Life is the game that must be played.
Edwin Arlington Robinson
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
Timothy Fuller
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
Life is a long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
Baruch Spinoza
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
Marion Howard
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot (Quoted in Catch the Whisper of the Wind compiled by Cheewa James)
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
Anais Nin
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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