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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE AND LIVING 2
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
John C. Calhoun (1782-1850, American statesman)
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987, American scholar, writer, teacher)
Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924, Polish-born British novelist)
Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.
Albert Camus (1913-1960, French existential writer)
In private life I never knew anyone who would interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
Life is a little gleam of time between two eternities.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881, Scottish philosopher, author)
life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie (1888-1955, American trainer, author, "How to Win Friends and Influence People")
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Georges Carpentier
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny Carson (1925-, American TV personality, businessman)
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964, American marine biologist, author)
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter (1924-, American President (39th))
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
Violet Bonham Carter
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961, French author)
Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting -- or he'll come along and nibble your brain.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961, French author)
She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
With life, many things are remedied.
Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616, Spanish novelist, dramatist, poet)
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936, British author)
Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child (1912-2004, American gourmet cook, author, and television personality)
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 (1854-1921, Mother of British prime Minster, Winston Churchill)
While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus T. Cicero (c. 106-43 BC, Roman orator, politician)
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank A. Clark
Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.
Steven Coallier
Life is a horizontal fall.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963, French author, filmmaker)
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963, French author, filmmaker)
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to "meddle not".
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832, British sportsman writer)
Life is simple, but some people insist on complicating it.
Confucius (BC 551-479, Chinese ethical teacher, philosopher)
I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.
Robert Conklin (American teacher, author, speaker)
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran (1932-, British designer, journalist)
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
Robert A. Cook
It is the link from the present to the past that gives us a spirit to address the future.
Midge Costanza
Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997, French naval officer, underwater explorer)
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
William Cowper (1731-1800, British poet)
Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Quentin Crisp (1908-1999, British author)
The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience.
Aleister Crowley (1875-1947, British occultist)
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Madame Marie Curie (1867-1934, Polish-born French physicist)
Our life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519, Italian inventor, architect, painter, scientist, sculptor)
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321, Italian philosopher, poet)
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
Sir Humphrey Davy (1778-1829, British chemist)
It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.
Roger Dawson (British-born American negotiation expert, speaker, author)
Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.
P. L. Debevoise
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863, French artist)
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870, British novelist)
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Ernest Dimnet (1866-1954, French clergyman)
Life is too short to be little.
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881, British statesman, Prime Minister)
Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.
Thomas A. Dorgan
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930, British author, "Sherlock Holmes")
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
He lives who dies to win a lasting name.
Henry Drummond (1786-1860, British banker, politician, religious leader)
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
John Dryden (1631-1700, British poet, dramatist, critic)
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely.
George Duhamel
People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.
Isadora Duncan (1878-1927, American dancer)
What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.
Lewis L Dunnington
Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer (1940-, American psychotherapist, author, lecturer) Author's website: www.waynedyer.com
Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.
Henry Van Dyke (1852--1933, American protestant clergyman and writer)
Our deeds follow us and what we have been makes us what we are.
John Dykes
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan (1941-, American musician, singer, songwriter)
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931, American inventor, founder of GE)
It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so, than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
Havelock Ellis (1859-1939, British psychologist)
Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Life too near paralyses art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Live, let live, and help live
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774, Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright)
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
Life is only what we choose to make it.
D. Elder
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
George Eliot (1819-1880, British novelist)
Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965, American-born British poet, critic)
If we live truly, we shall see truly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894, American author, wit, poet)
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Epictetus (50-138, Phrygian philosopher)
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
Epicurus (c.341-270 BC, Greek philosopher)
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson
Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.
Paul F. Facult
Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.
Charles Feidelson
I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Joanna Field
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