Life Quotes and Sayings (10)

In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
~Ben Jonson, To the Immortal Memory and Friendship of that Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary and Sir H. Morison, 1640


We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.  ~Stacy


Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate.  ~R.D. Laing


Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.  ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière


Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960


Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.  ~James Gibbons Huneker


Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.  ~Ogden Nash


I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.  ~A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young


Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827


Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.  ~Henry Van Dyke


People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to?  ~Robert Brault

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Life is ten percent what happens to us and ninety percent how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan Poe

There is nothing on earth that you can have in your life – once you have mentally accepted the fact that you can have it.
Robert Collier

In life you find that one of the most desirable qualities you can find in a person is flexibility. The ability to change with changing times, to face adversity with the same attitude one would have in facing victory.
A Guide to a Happy Life

The quality of a person’s life will be determined by the depth of their commitment to excellence, no matter what their chosen field.
Unknown

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Unknown

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change, and all patterns alter.
Sharon Salzberg

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.
Wittgenstein

Digest: One of the greatest mistakes in life is to fear continually you will make one.
Unknown

Life is what happens to you while you’re working for your future.
Unknown 

Life’s a game, all you have to do, is know how to play it.
Unknown

The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.
Bruce Lee

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Arthur Ashe

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