Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 6



Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs

Life is just a journey
Princess of Wales Diana

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Joan Borysenko

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Anonymous

The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. Somerset Maugham

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco

Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean

Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today.
Og Mandino

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
George Bernard Shaw

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.
Dennis P. Costea, Jr.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
Proverb

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Samuel Johnson

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.
Moroccan Proverb

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Anonymous

A light heart lives long.
Proverb

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles Schulz

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It’s in our hands.
Cathy Better

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
John (Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms)

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker

A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To the student I would say, “Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there’s a tough essay question.”
Robert Brault

Life begins at forty.
Proverb

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