Quotes about life

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on life
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"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

Aleichem, Sholom on life
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"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."

Allen, James on life
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"Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable."

Allen, Woody on life
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"Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on life
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"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger."

Anderson, Hans Christian on life
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"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"Life loves the liver of it."

Angelou, Maya on life
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"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

Antrim, Minna on life
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"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."

Aristotle on life
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"When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach."

Artaud, Antonin on life
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"Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence."

Augustine, St. on life
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"The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live."

Aurelius, Marcus on life
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"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer."

Bachelard, Gaston on life
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"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Bacon, Francis on life
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"You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."

Baez, Joan on life
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"Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture."

Baker, Russell (Wayne) on life
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"Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it."

Baluch, Joy on life
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

Barrie, Sir James M. on life
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"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."

Barrymore, John on life
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"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."

Baruch, Bernard M. on life
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"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."

Basset, Lucinda on life
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"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly."

Baudrillard, Jean on life
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"In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

Baughan, Bill on life
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"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."

Bellamy, Guy on life
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"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."

Benet, Stephen Vincent on life
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"We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations."

Benjamin, Walter on life   

"Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities."

Berenson, Bernard on life
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"Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands."

Better, Cathy on life
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"Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]"

Bible on life
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"For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]"

Bible on life
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"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. [Psalms 90:10]"

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"All that man has will he give for his life."

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"Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay."

Bierce, Ambrose on life   

"Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb."

Billings, Josh on life