LIFE QUOTES III

quotations about life

life quote

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered. Like a train into which one jumps without thinking, and without asking oneself where it is going.

ANDRE GIDE

The Counterfeiters

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Calm down, you'll live longer.

RICHARD LAYMON

The Stake

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Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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Life is one long process of getting tired.

SAMUEL BUTLER

Note Books


All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces.

BLAISE PASCAL

Pensees

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There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing. He bolts down all events, all creeds, and beliefs, and persuasions, all hard things visible and invisible, never mind how knobby; as an ostrich of potent digestion gobbles down bullets and gun flints. And as for small difficulties and worrying, prospects of sudden disaster, peril of life and limb; all these, and death itself, seem to him only sly, good-natured hits, and jolly punches in the side bestowed by the unseen and unaccountable old joker.

HERMAN MELVILLE

Moby Dick


I seem to have always one little window looking but into life.

EMMA LAZARUS

obituary, Century Magazine, 1887

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Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.

ARTHUR LYNCH

Moods of Life

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It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You--no one else! To achieve major success in life--to achieve those things that are most important to you--you must assume 100 percent responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

JACK CANFIELD

The Success Principles

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Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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Life is not a mixture of matter and energy but energy in matter, bound in such a way that dissociation is impossible so long as the living process continues.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

The Language of the Body

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Life is the root of Eden's loftiest tree
Whose ripened fruit is immortality.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"God's Gift to Man"

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Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

DAN SIMMONS

Endymion


A shiftless clerk, I take the days on trust,
Nor strip them of their spoil before they go.

KARLE WILSON BAKER

"The Dusty Way", Blue Smoke

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Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

GEORGE ELIOT

Daniel Deronda


Life is a plant that grows out of death.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


All life is a dream, my children, but you are not the dreamer; the Dreamer rests on a bed of down plucked from the breast of the swan of eternity. He turns in His sleep sometimes, and a world comes to an end; He smiles in His sleep sometimes, and men know the Golden Age; sometimes He is restless, too, and the revolutions come. Will the Dreamer never awake? Who knows! I would hold Him sleeping; For if He should rise from His nest on the down of eternity, He might rub His drowsy eyes -- and I should forget to be.

ELSA BARKER

Songs of a Vagrom Angel

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That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

GLEN DUNCAN

Death of an Ordinary Man

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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

IMMANUEL KANT

Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals

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The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

EDWARD HOAGLAND

Tigers & Ice

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