Monday, 12 September 2011

Life Quotes and Sayings (18)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.  ~Anton Chekhov


Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


Here is the world.  Beautiful and terrible things will happen.  Don't be afraid.  ~Frederick Buechner


Life is like sailing.  You can use any wind to go in any direction.  ~Robert Brault,


Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.  ~W. Somerset Maugham


In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.  ~Diego Marchi


I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
~Robert Browning


Today, fill your cup of life with sunshine and laughter.  ~Dodinsky,

Life may have no meaning.  Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant


Life is an incurable Disease.  ~Abraham Cowley


The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this:  Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself.  Nights are long and life is predominantly good.  Wind is refreshing.  Tea is wisdom.  Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.  ~Jessi Lane Adams


Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.  ~Anonymous


For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.  ~Albert Camus


Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.  ~Christopher Isherwood


The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.  ~Angelina Jolie


Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.  ~Bruce Crampton


Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


In masks outrageous and austere
The years go by in single file;
But none has merited my fear,
And none has quite escaped my smile.
~Elinor Hoyt Wylie, Let No Charitable Hope


To succeed in life, you need three things:  a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.  ~Reba McEntire


The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.  ~Thomas Carlyle


I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.  ~Robert Brault,


All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.  ~Havelock Ellis


Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.  ~Joseph Addison


We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.  ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin


[Psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts.  Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.  ~Karen Horney, Our Inner Conflicts, 1945


Give us Lord, a bit o' sun,
A bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
~From an inn in Lancaster, England


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