Quotes about life

"May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!"

Proverb, Scottish on life   

"No one knows when they are well off."

Punch on life   

"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth."

Purkey, William on life
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"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."

Radner, Gilda on life
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"Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life."

Ransom, Ralph on life   

"Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified."

Redfield, James on life   

"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony."

Reed, Lou on life   

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."

Rexford, Eben Eugene on life   

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things"

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."

Rilke, Rainer Maria on life
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"Life is the farce which everyone has to perform."

Rimbaud, Arthur on life   

"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world."

Rimbaud, Arthur on life
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"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."

Rivarol, Antoine on life   

"Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more."

Robbins, Anthony on life   

"Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human."

Robbins, Anthony on life
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"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

Rogers, Carl on life
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"In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough."

Rogers, Will on life   

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on life
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"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on life
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"To live is not breathing it is action."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on life   

"Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life."

Rubinstein, Arthur on life   

"It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances."

Ruskin, John on life   

"There is no wealth but life."

Ruskin, John on life   

"The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge."

Russell, Bertrand on life
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"The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long."

Russell, Bertrand on life   

"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

Russell, Bertrand on life
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"Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long."

Russell, Lady R. on life   

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on life
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"There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned."

Salisbury, Harrison on life   

"Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass."

Santaguida, Paul on life
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"Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament."

Santayana, George on life   

"The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world."

Santayana, George on life   

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William on life
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"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life   

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life   

"Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch."

Schmaltz, David A. on life