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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON LIFE 8
Each day should be passed as though it were our last.
Publilius Syrus (85 BC- 43BC, Roman writer)
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117, Roman historian)
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)
Learning and teaching are two of the most important functions in life; just as loving and being loved are important.
Baybars Tek Omer
Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Sir William Temple (1628-1699, British diplomat, essayist)
I am a part of all that I have met.
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892, British poet)
All that man has will he give for his life.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Matthew 6:31
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)
Never tire of loyalty and kindness. Hold these virtues tightly. Write them deep within your heart.
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
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953, Welsh poet)
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
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)
A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.
Hester Piozzi Thrale (1741-1821, British writer)
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
Life is filled with possibilities.
Author Unknown
Life is like a game of tennis; the player who serves well seldom loses.
Author Unknown
Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.
Author Unknown
Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition
Author Unknown
Life is short. Focus from this day forward on making a difference.
Author Unknown
Life is sometimes hard to love, though we must love it because we have no other. To fail to love it is to cease to exist.
Author Unknown
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's" and fear rejection.
Author Unknown
Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.
Author Unknown
Life may be hard, but it's also wonderful.
Author Unknown
Life offers no obstacles, only challenges!
Author Unknown
Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn
Author Unknown
Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.
Author Unknown
Live life with a fire that can never be extinguished.
Author Unknown
Live poor so you can die rich.
Author Unknown
Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
Author Unknown
Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.
Author Unknown
Making a life comes before making a living.
Author Unknown
Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.
Author Unknown
May your life be like the snowflake; leave a mark but not a stain.
Author Unknown
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Author Unknown
Never lose an opportunity of saying a kind word nor of doing a kind act.
Author Unknown
Never suppress a generous impulse.
Author Unknown
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
Author Unknown
No one knows when they are well off.
Author Unknown
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Author Unknown
One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.
Author Unknown
Only through caring and helping can life's true successes be found.
Author Unknown
Our beliefs as well as our actions must come from the heart, for in our hearts the true wisdom that frees us and the paths of compassion are inseparable.
Author Unknown
Some pursue happiness -- others create it.
Author Unknown
Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way
Author Unknown
Take love away from life and you take away its pleasures.
Author Unknown
Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.
Author Unknown
The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.
Author Unknown
The door of opportunity won't open unless you do some pushing.
Author Unknown
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
Henry Van Dyke (1852-1933, American poet, author)
This city now doth, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning; silent bare, ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie open unto the fields and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850, British poet)
The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.
Author Unknown
The most important things in life are free, but the second best are expensive.
Author Unknown
The most important things in life aren't things.
Author Unknown
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Author Unknown
The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.
Author Unknown
To a wise man every day is a new life.
Author Unknown
To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.
Author Unknown
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Author Unknown
With each choice you make, you create your life.
Author Unknown
Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
Author Unknown
Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890, Dutch-born French painter)
Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what dead man should have been.
Gustave Vapereau
My life is a battle.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
We never live; we are always anticipating living.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778, French historian, writer)
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries (1910-1993, American author)
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
I'm the girl with the unquenchable thirst.
Anne Waldman
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797, British author)
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole (1717-1797, British author)
Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
William A. Ward
Life is a state of mind.
Jack Warden
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly
Andy Warhol (1930-, American artist, filmmaker)
Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.
Simone Weil (1910-1943, French philosopher, mystic)
Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.
John Welsh
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
John Wesley (1703-1791, British preacher, founder of Methodism)
No other influence that can surround the human soul has such power as the influence of an unselfish life.
Ellen Gould White (1827-1915, American seventh-day Adventist leader)
The life that will be preserved is the life that is freely given in service to God and man.
Ellen Gould White (1827-1915, American seventh-day Adventist leader)
Choosing to live an extraordinary life is simple. This does not, however, mean that it easy.
Robert White (American trainer, professional speaker)
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947, British mathematician, philosopher)
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.
Walt Whitman (1819-1892, American poet)
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Michael Wickett (American motivational speaker, sales trainer)
The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim -- objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900, British author, wit)
Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.
Stuart Wilde (1946-, British-born American author, lecturer)
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, American novelist, playwright)
If excellence is to prevail in our lives, mediocrity must be shunned at every cost.
Mary Louise Wiley
If you want your life to be meaningful, go out and do something about it.
Mary Louise Wiley
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams (1914-1983, American dramatist)
Don't live your life to please others.
Oprah Winfrey (1954-, American TV personality, producer, actress, author)
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951, Austrian philosopher)
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Thomas Wolfe (1931-, American author, journalist)
One belongs to New York instantly. One belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years.
Thomas Wolfe (1931-, American author, journalist)
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941, British novelist, essayist)
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959, American architect)
The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears -- as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959, American architect)
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959, American architect)
I have an existential map; it has "you are here" written all over it.
Steven Wright (1955-, American humorist)
Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, "So, what did you think?"
Steven Wright (1955-, American humorist)
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1911-, Indian spiritual teacher, founder of Transcendental Meditation)
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
Edward Young (1683-1765, British poet, dramatist)
The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.
Yuan-Sou
If you don't think everyday is a great day, try going without one.
Zig Ziglar (1926-, American sales trainer, author, motivational speaker) Author's website: www.zigziglar.com
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