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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE 7
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
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.
Charles Shulz
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)
I look upon those pitiful concretions of lime and clay which spring up, in mildewed forwardness, out of the kneaded fields about our capital... not merely with the careless disgust of an offended eye, not merely with sorrow for a desecrated landscape, but with a painful foreboding that the roots of our national greatness must be deeply cankered when they are thus loosely struck in their native ground. The crowded tenements of a struggling and restless population differ only from the tents of the Arab or the Gipsy by their less healthy openness to the air of heaven, and less happy choice of their spot of earth; by their sacrifice of liberty without the gain of rest, and of stability without the luxury of change.
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 good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.
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)
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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)
Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.
Paul Santaguida
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principals to trifles.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana (1863-1952, American philosopher, poet)
Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.
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)
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980, French writer, philosopher)
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
The best we can do is to go through life trying to be happy and helping those we meet along the way.
Kate Smith
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)
When you were born you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cried and you rejoice.
Old Indian Saying
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.
Francis Schaeffer (1912-1984, American author)
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805, German dramatist, poet, historian)
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)
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.
Chief Seattle (1786-1866, American Indian chief of the Squeamish)
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)
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616, British poet, playwright, actor)
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)
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
Neil Simon (1927-, American playwright)
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
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)
Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.
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)
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.
Oswald Spengler (1880-1936, German 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)
Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received -- only what you have given: a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226, Italian preacher, founder of The Franciscan Orde)
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)
Life is a series of awakenings.
Annamalai Swami
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! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
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
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
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)
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
Tom Stoppard (1937-, Czech playwright)
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)
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