Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 4



Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
Tenzin Gyatso, (14th Dalai Lama)

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert Hubbard

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Robert Heinlein

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickso

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain

Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.
Colette

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
Havelock Ellis

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Henry James

Life is “trying things to see if they work.”
Ray Bradbury

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get.
Robbert Oustin

Lord, let me live until I die.
Will Rogers

May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James

Service is what life is all about.
Marian Wright Edelman

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie

Life is like sailing. You can use any wind to go in any direction.
Robert Brault

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
Les Brown

Life is not a final. It’s daily pop quizzes.
Anonymous

A life without cause is a life without effect.
Barbarella

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Thomas Jefferson

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard Baruch

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis

The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell

Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Darlington Morley

As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose.
Anonymous

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”.
Erma Bombeck

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