Thoughts About Life
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill
together.
-Shakespeare
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be
reborn in each new one.
-- Jack Kornfield
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
--Fran Lebowitz
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
--Stanislaw J. Lec
Life is too serious to be taken seriously.
--Mike Leonard
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced...
Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice
-- Cherokee saying
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a
rat.
-- Lily Tomlin
If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And if I am only for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?
-Jewish saying
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
-Shakespeare
When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like
a
froward child, that must be played with and humoured a little to keep it
quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.
-Sir William Temple
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external
relations.
--Herbert Spencer
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
--Charles Feidelson, Jr.
The best use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts life.
--William James
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging
day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
--Stephen Vincent Benét
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
--William Osler
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be
sorry.
--Mark Twain
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
--Carl Sandburg
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that
he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being
judged not to have lived.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.
--Elbert Hubbard
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every
deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
--Fulton J. Sheen
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition
of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors
have in a second
edition to correct some faults in the first.
--Benjamin Franklin
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
--Jean de La Bruyère
Life is a dead-end street.
--H. L. Mencken
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story,
and writes another.
--James Matthew Barrie
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another...It's one damn
thing over and over.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when
you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive.
You will be dead soon enough.
--William Saroyan
May you live all the days of your life.
--Jonathan Swift (Polite Conversation)
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
--William Shakespeare
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live;
Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
--Robert Southwell
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man--yesterday in embryo,
tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to
thee, live
rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive,
extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations)
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and
hour.
--Stephen Butler Leacock
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