Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 30
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett
Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Omar Khayyam
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion
Sylvia Plath
This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.
Marian Mountain
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and everyday you have the opportunity to write a new page
Mark Houlahan
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Albert Camus
There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
Harrison Salisbury
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov
Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
Vincent Van Gogh
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Oscar Wilde
There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and change. You can’t avoid change, it’s mandatory, progress however is optional.
Bill R. Good
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Joseph Campbell
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
George Santayana
My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.
Ronald Reagan
Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult.
Hypocrites
The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
Jessi Lane Adams
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa Parks
Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.
Coleman Dowell
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein
There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man’s existence.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Wilson Mizner
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Earl Nightingale
It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.
Tony Robbins
A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller
Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.
Anonymous
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Sarah Bernhardt
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.
David Searls
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