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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE 3
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)
Service is what life is all about; it never occurred to me not to be involved in the community.
Marian Wright Edelman
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 too near paralyses art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.
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)
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost (1875-1963, American poet)
The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-, American economist)
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)
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955, German-born American physicist)
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)
There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969, American President (34th))
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)
Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American poet, essayist)
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)
What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. Henry (1862-1910, American writer)
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 city is recruited from the country.
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)
This is it. There are no hidden meanings. All that mystical stuff is just what's so.
Werner Erhard (American entrepreneur, scientologist)
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
My real assets have always been acting and just being pleasant.
Sally Field (1946-, American actress)
The City attaches an exaggerated importance to the healing power of lunch.
Christopher Fieldes (British financial journalist)
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.
W. C. Fields (1879-1946, American actor)
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
W. C. Fields (1879-1946, American actor)
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, American writer) Author's website: www.fitzgeraldsociety.org
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not "happiness and pleasure" but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940, American writer) Author's website: www.fitzgeraldsociety.org
Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880, French novelist)
The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
B.C. Forbes
Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B.C. Forbes
My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
George Foreman (1949-, American boxer)
Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.
Edward M. Forster (1879-1970, British novelist, essayist)
Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
Edward M. Forster (1879-1970, British novelist, essayist)
I guess that one of the most important things I've learned is that nothing is ever completely bad. Even cancer. It has made me a better person. It has given me courage and a sense of purpose I never had before. But you don't have to do like I did...wait until you lose a leg or get some awful disease, before you take the time to find out what kind of stuff you're really made of. You can start now. Anybody can.
Terry Fox
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking.
Fo-Yan
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997, Austrian psychiatrist, author, "Man's Search for Meaning")
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997, Austrian psychiatrist, author, "Man's Search for Meaning")
Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997, Austrian psychiatrist, author, "Man's Search for Meaning")
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
Viktor E. Frankl (1905-1997, Austrian psychiatrist, author, "Man's Search for Meaning")
Do ye value life? Then waste not time for that is the stuff of which life is made.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
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 (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
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 (1706-1790, American scientist, publisher, diplomat)
Give me work to do, Give me health, Give me joy in simple things, Give me an eye for beauty, A tongue for truth, A heart that loves, A mind that reasons, A sympathy that understands. Give me neither malice nor envy, But a true kindness And a noble common sense. At the close of each day Give me a book And a friend with whom I can be silent.
S. M. Frazier
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life -- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum (1937-, American writer, minister, working cowboy)
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum (1937-, American writer, minister, working cowboy)
Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Margaret Witter Fuller (1810-1850, American writer, lecturer)
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661, British clergyman, author)
Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Annette Funicello
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.
Clark Gable (1901-1960, American actor)
Paris is the cafe of Europe.
Ferdinando Galiani
My life is my message.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948, Indian political, spiritual leader)
The old Quaker was right: "I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once. "
W. C. Gannett
One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility are building the common future.
John W. Gardner (1912-2002, American educator, social activist)
I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.
Art Garfunkel
Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1883-1955, Spanish essayist, philosopher)
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903, French artist)
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903, French artist)
Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.
Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Never be afraid to take on a really tough problem. When you solve it, the benefits will be that much greater.
Carl A. Gerstacker
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931, Lebanese poet, novelist)
Never cease to be convinced that life might be better -- your own and others.
Andre Gide (1869-1951, French author)
People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Henry Giles
Life is a verb, not a noun.
Charlotte P. Gillman (1860-1935, American feminist and writer)
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832, German poet, dramatist, novelist)
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