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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE AND LIVING 5
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
Kathleen Norris (1880-1966, American novelist)
What's important? That I'm fair and honest, and that perhaps along life's way, I can help others.
Deborah Norville
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
Henri Nouwen (Christian author)
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
The man who thinks he can live without others is mistaken; the one who thinks others can't live without him is even more deluded.
Hasidic Proverb (Sayings of Hasidic origin)
Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.
William Purkey
We are here not to get all we can out of life for ourselves, but to try to make the lives of others happier.
William Older
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953, American dramatist)
Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation
Radar O'Reilly
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.
P.J. O'Rourke
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919, Canadian physician)
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
Sir William Osler (1849-1919, Canadian physician)
This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God.
Ovid (BC 43-18 AD, Roman poet)
Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.
Jerold Panas
When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime and it is up to us to make the most of it.
Jerold Panas
Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662, French scientist, religious philosopher)
Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.
Boris Pasternak (1890-1960, Russian poet, novelist, translator)
Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.
Cesare Pavese (1908-1950, Italian poet, novelist, translator)
No nation became great by becoming rich. Neither does a man find enduring satisfaction in life by owning something -- only by becoming something.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993, American Christian reformed pastor, speaker, author)
Life is a team sport. Sometimes you give and sometimes you get.
Ann Pearson
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
Walker Percy (1916-1990, American novelist)
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
Thomas J. Peters (1942-, American management consultant, author, lecturer)
Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.
Don Piatt
Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981, American peace activist)
Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936, Italian author, playwright)
The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.
Pliny The Elder (c.23-79, Roman neophatonist)
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather. He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
Alfred Polgar
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
John V. Politis
Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963, Italian head of Roman Catholic order)
See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963, Italian head of Roman Catholic order)
Life is too short to learn German.
R. Porson
Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.
Robert Powell
Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Hugh Prather
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
Ross Presser
Life is just a journey
Princess Diana (1961-1997, British Princess)
Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
V. S. Pritchett (1900-1997, British author, critic)
Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.
Fred Propp Jr.
If you are planning for a year, plant grain. If you are planning for a decade, plant trees. If you are planning for a century, plant men.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked. If you want an audience, start a fight.
Chinese Proverb (Sayings of Chinese origin)
Life is short; but it barely takes a second to smile.
Cuban Proverb (Sayings of Cuban origin)
The town is new every day.
Estonian Proverb
Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
French Proverb (Sayings of French origin)
In the morning of life, work; in the midday give council; in the evening, pray.
German Proverb (Sayings of German origin)
Live near water, and ask not about sustenance.
Omani Proverb
There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
Persian Proverb (Sayings of Persian origin)
Where there is life, there is also hope.
Salvadoran Proverb
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.
Sanscrit Proverb
May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
Scottish Proverb (Sayings of Scottish origin)
Who can say for sure that one will live to see tomorrow.
Tibetan Proverb (Sayings of Tibetan origin)
The place of your birth is less important than how you live.
Turkish Proverb (Sayings of Turkish origin)
God created people because he loves stories.
Yiddish Proverb (Sayings of Yiddish origin)
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
Anna Quindlen
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radgliffe
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
Gilda Radner (1946-1989, American comedienne)
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom
Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.
James Redfield (1950-, American author, "The Celestine Prophesy")
Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.
Lou Reed (1942-, American musician, guitarist, singer, songwriter)
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Eben Eugene Rexford
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926, German poet)
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891, French poet)
What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.
Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891, French poet)
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fear of the future.
Antoine Rivarol (1753-1801, French journalist, epigrammatist)
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins (1960-, American author, speaker, peak performance expert, coach) Author's website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.
Will Rogers (1879-1935, American humorist, actor)
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
What shall I do with my life? How much am I willing to give of myself, of my time, of my love?
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962, American First Lady, columnist, lecturer, humanitarian)
The purpose of life is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to be productive, to have it make some difference that you live at all.
Leo C. Rosten (1908-1997, Polish-born American political scientist)
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
To live is not breathing, it is action.
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778, Swiss political philosopher, educationist, essayist)
Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
Arthur Rubenstein
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been created in honor of a critic.
Jean Sibelius
To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.
Lillian Smith (1897-1966, American author)
First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying
Author Unknown
A life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason; knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.
Lady R. Russell
There is in a man an upwelling spring of life, energy, love, whatever you like to call it. If a course is not cut for it, it turns the ground round it into a swamp.
Mark Rutherford
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery (1900-1944, French aviator, writer)
There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.
Harrison Salisbury
Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process...
Dr. Jonas Salk (1914-1995, American virologist who discovered the first vaccine against poliomyelitis)
The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
Herbert Samuels
I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967, American poet)
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