Life Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 7



The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas

A good life is a main argument.
Ben Jonson

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
Anonymous

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Bible (James 4:14)

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
Jennie Jerome Churchill

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
Jerome K. Jerome

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb

Life is relationships; the rest is just details.
Gary Smalley

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates

I say, if your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
John Dewey

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
Wally ‘Famous’ Amos

Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Proverb

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Ambrose Bierce

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields

Don’t worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body.
Bible (Matthew 6:31)

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Flora Whittemore

Life is one of the most important causes of death.
Gerhard Kocher

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Benjamin Franklin

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.
Charlie Brown

What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

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