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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE AND LIVING 6
Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.
Paul Santaguida
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to candor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
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 (1908-1981, American writer, novelist, playwright)
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980, French writer, philosopher)
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980, French writer, philosopher)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
Carol Shields
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.
Sophocles (495-406 BC, Greek tragic poet)
Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.
David A. Schmaltz
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860, German philosopher)
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Robert H. Schuller (1926-, American minister, author, social leader)
Nothing lifts your spirits or fills your heart more than giving your support and time to a good cause.
John Schwartz
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965, German born medical missionary, theologian, musician, and philosopher)
Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832, British novelist, poet)
Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
Sir John Robert Seeley
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Life is warfare.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
One should count each day a separate life.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman philosopher, dramatist, statesman)
Live simply that others may simply live.
Elizabeth Ann Seton
People should always have something which they prefer to life.
Johann G. Seume (1763-1810, German theologist)
For goodness' sake, consider what you do; how you may hurt yourself.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Simply the thing I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
This is the excellent foppery of the world: that when we are sick in fortune -- often the surfeits of our own behavior -- we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
Life is a series of choices, and sometimes your only choice is what your attitude will be.
Shantidasa
My life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979, American Roman Catholic clergyman, broadcaster)
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979, American Roman Catholic clergyman, broadcaster)
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
Fulton John Sheen (1895-1979, American Roman Catholic clergyman, broadcaster)
Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851, British novelist)
In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.
Joseph R. Sizoo
Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.
Lynard Skynard
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles (1812-1904, Scottish author)
There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946, Anglo-American essayist, aphorist)
In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.
Robert Southey (1774-1843, British author)
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903, British philosopher)
Live long and prosper.
Benjamin Spock (1903-1998, American pediatrician)
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
St. Augustine (354-430, Numidian-born bishop of Hippo, theologian)
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
Freya Stark (1893-1993, British travel writer)
The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.
Freya Stark (1893-1993, British travel writer)
Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
John Steinbeck (1902-1968, American author)
Reality is the crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
Lily Tomlin (1939-, American comedienne)
Living itself is a risky business. If we spent half as much time learning how to take risks as we spend avoiding them, we wouldn't have so much fear in life.
E. Paul Torrance
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
We could learn a lot from Crayons: Some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but we have to learn how to live in the same box.
Author Unknown
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
Life is a means of extracting fiction.
Robert Stone (1937-, American novelist)
Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.
Neil C. Strait
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745, Anglo-Irish satirist)
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
I slept and dreamed that life was happiness. I awoke and saw that life was service. I served and found that in service happiness is found.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941, Indian poet, philosopher)
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)
All that man has will he give for his life.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: James 4:14
Never neglect to show kindness and to share what you have with others; for such are the sacrifices which God approves.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Psalms 90:10
Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.
Robert Thibodeau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life... I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life... to drive life into a corner… to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
Only those live who do good.
Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910, Russian novelist, philosopher)
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Rose Tremain
My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage -- my life is a study of that.
Donald Trump (1946-, American businessman, actor)
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like nobody is watching.
Mark Twain (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
A life is like a tree -- if you don't make it straight when its young and green, you'll never do it when it's old and dry.
Author Unknown
A light heart lives long.
Author Unknown
A man's life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.
Author Unknown
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
Author Unknown
Better than thanksgiving is thanksliving.
Author Unknown
Boredom is a sickness of the soul.
Author Unknown
Boredom, like necessity, is very often the mother of invention.
Author Unknown
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
Author Unknown
It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there
Author Unknown
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Author Unknown
Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout
Author Unknown
Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.
Author Unknown
Life is a state of mind; imagine the one that you want, and then create it.
Author Unknown
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end
Author Unknown
Life is built of the things we do. The only constructive material is positive action.
Author Unknown
Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.
Author Unknown
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