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Rousseau, Jean J. | Life
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
France, Anatole | Life
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life.
Kafka, Franz | Life
We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Rieff, Philip | Life
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive.
Nagarjuna | Life
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates | Life
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
Wilde, Oscar | Life
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Khan, Pir Vilayat Inayat | Life
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Mencken, H.L. | Life
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
Hazlitt, William | Life
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
Howe, Edgar Watson | Life
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.
Thurber, James | Life
Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
Cicero | Life
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
Seneca | Life
Never rail at the world, it is just as we make it,- We see not the flower if we sow not the seed; And as for ill-luck, why, it's just as we take it,- The heart that's in earnest no bars can impede.
Swain, Charles | Life
My trade and art is to live.
Montaigne, Michel De | Life
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
Millay, Edna Saint Vincent | Life
Life's more amusing than we thought.
Lang, Andrew | Life
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
Mizner, Wilson | Life
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.
Robinson, Edwin A. | Life
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
Upanishads | Life
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Goethe, Johann Von | Life
Life is short. Time is fleeting. Realise the Self. Purity of the heart is the gateway to God. Aspire. Renounce. Meditate. Be good; do good. Be kind; be compassionate. Inquire, know Thyself.
Sivananda | Life
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Life
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
Paracelsus | Life
Life is but thought.
Coleridge, Samuel T. | Life
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Carlyle, Thomas | Life
Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Butler, Samuel | Life
Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
Sivananda | Life
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup.
Teasdale, Sara | Life
Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
Anouilh, Jean | Life
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Goethe, Johann Von | Life
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
Colton, Charles C. | Life
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Pythagoras | Life
I\'m passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings--iT\'s All A Miracle.
Rubinstein, Arthur | Life
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
Nehru, Jawaharial | Life
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
Browning, Robert | Life
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Rogers, Will | Life
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Seneca | Life
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
Seneca | Life
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Kabbalah | Life
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs | Life
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
Steve Jobs | Life
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne Lamott | Life
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Khalil Gibran | Life
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
Joseph Campbell | Life
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil Gibran | Life
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran | Life
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus | Life
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Henry Drummond | Life
You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
Rick Warren | Life
You want to believe that there's one relationship in life that's beyond betrayal. A relationship that's beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn't.
Caleb Carr | Life
You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed to be normal.
Johnny Depp | Life
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Tony Robbins | Life
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti | Life
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
Sai Baba | Life
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama | Life
You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
Kim Kardashian | Life
You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
Wayne Dyer | Life
You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.
Steve Martin | Life
You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent God, the all-great God, the Almighty God, the most powerful God, the giver of life God, the creator of death. I mean, we're hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob Dylan | Life
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo Coelho | Life
You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
Charlie Sheen | Life
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard | Life
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill | Life
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
John Cleese | Life
You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett | Life
You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.
Evel Knievel | Life
You change your life by changing your heart.
Max Lucado | Life
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.
Keith Sweat | Life
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
Deepak Chopra | Life
You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.
Drew Barrymore | Life
You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs | Life
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
Zig Ziglar | Life
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt | Life
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar | Life
You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.
Joel Osteen | Life
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw | Life
You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.
Wayne Dyer | Life
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
W. Clement Stone | Life
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
Shania Twain | Life
Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor Adorno | Life
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
Steve Jobs | Life
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
Charles R. Swindoll | Life
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
Albert Camus | Life
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Angelina Jolie | Life
Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche | Life
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Leo Tolstoy | Life
Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha | Life
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein | Life
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Life
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth | Life
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
Wilma Rudolph | Life
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm | Life
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
Gilda Radner | Life
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Life
While there's life, there's hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Life
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi | Life
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot | Life
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
Debra Messing | Life
When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.
George Carlin | Life
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