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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE AND LIVING 1
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The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888, American educator, social reformer)
Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888, American author)
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem (1859-1916, Ukraine-born American writer)
If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.
Alfonso X (1221-1284, Spanish King of Leon and Castile)
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master -- gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen (1864-1912, British-born American essayist, author, "As A Man Thinketh")
Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen (1935-, American director, screenwriter, actor, comedian)
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering; and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen (1935-, American director, screenwriter, actor, comedian)
Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
John Christian Bovee (1820-1904, American author, lawyer)
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821-1881, Swiss philosopher, poet, critic)
Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875, Danish children stories writer)
Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou (1928-, African-American poet, writer, performer) Author's website: www.mayaangelou.com
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."
Maya Angelou (1928-, African-American poet, writer, performer) Author's website: www.mayaangelou.com
The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
Minna Antrim (1861-1950, American epigrammist)
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975, German-born American political philosopher)
The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
Aristotle (BC 384-322, Greek philosopher)
When we speak the word "life," it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
Antonin Artaud (1896-1948, French theater producer, actor, theorist)
A filly who wants to run will always find a rider.
Jacques Audiberti
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius (121-12180, Roman emperor, philosopher)
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962, French scientist, philosopher, literary theorist)
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626, British philosopher, essayist, statesman)
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
Joan Baez (1941-, American singer, songwriter)
Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's find," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
Russell Wayne Baker (1925-, American journalist)
Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.
James Baldwin (1924-1987, American author)
They have rights who dare defend them.
Roger Baldwin
Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.
Joy Baluch
If someone is wiser, if someone is happier by my having lived, my life will not have been in vain.
Roger Barnes
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie (1860-1937, British playwright)
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James M. Barrie (1860-1937, British playwright)
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
John Barrymore (1882-1942, American actor)
The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.
Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965, American financier)
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
Lucinda Basset
Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
Jean Baudrillard (French postmodern philosopher, writer)
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
Bill Baughan
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
Guy Bellamy
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 Benet (1989-1943, American novelist, poet)
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
Walter Benjamin (1982-1940, German critic, philosopher)
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
Walter Benjamin (1982-1940, German critic, philosopher)
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson (1865-1959, Lithuanian-born American artist)
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
Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914, American author, editor, journalist, "The Devil's Dictionary")
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
Josh Billings (1815-1885, American humorist, lecturer)
Life is an earnest business, and no one ever became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
Professor Blackie
We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
Paul Boese
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983, Dutch evangelist)
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.
Daniel J. Boorstin (1914-2004, American historian)
It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.
Evangeline Cory Booth
There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?
George Borrow (1803-1881, British author)
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979, Conductor, composer, teacher)
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956, German dramatist, poet)
I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life.
Helice Bridges
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove™.
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-, British-American humorist) Author's website: www.ashleighbrilliant.com
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove™.
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-, British-American humorist) Author's website: www.ashleighbrilliant.com
Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn™?
Ashleigh Brilliant (1933-, British-American humorist) Author's website: www.ashleighbrilliant.com
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855, British novelist)
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893, American minister, poet)
The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun (1888-1939, American journalist, novelist)
I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
Les Brown (1945-, American speaker, author, trainer, motivator,)
Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
William Adams Brown
The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, whose deeds both great and small are close-knit strands of an unbroken thread, where love enables all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861, British poet)
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.
Robert Browning (1812-1889, British poet)
The secret of joy is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973, American novelist)
Live everyday fully as if it were your last.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
Buddha (568-488 BC, Indian born, founder of Buddhism)
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality -- not as we expect it to be but as it is -- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
Frederick Buechner
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality -- not as we expect it to be but as it is -- is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
Frederick Buechner
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797, British political writer, statesman)
Nature has made you for a giver: Your hands are born open, and so is your heart.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton Burnett
Everyday happiness means getting up in the morning, and you can't wait to finish your breakfast. You can't wait to do your exercises. You can't wait to put on your clothes. You can't wait to get out. And you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.
George Burns (1896-1996, American comedy actor)
Life's but a day at most.
George Burns (1896-1996, American comedy actor)
Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
George Burns (1896-1996, American comedy actor)
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear -- it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns
Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
John Burroughs (1837-1921, American naturalist, author)
A life lived in love will never be dull.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998, American expert on love, lecturer, author)
People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, American educationist)
Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.
Philip Butler
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
To live is like to love -- all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680, British poet, satirist)
Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
Lord Byron (1788-1824, British poet)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell (1879-1958, American writer, critic)
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette (1873-1954, French author)
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
Eileen Caddy (American spiritual writer)
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar
What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681, Spanish playwright)
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