Quotes about life

"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Billings, Josh on life
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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Billings, Josh on life
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"Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins."

Blackie, Professor on life   

"For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life."

Blake, William on life   

"We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance."

Boese, Paul on life   

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation."

Boom, Corrie Ten on life
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"It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them."

Booth, Evangeline Cory on life   

"There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?"

Borrow, George on life   

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."

Boulanger, Nadia on life
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"Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on life   

"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

Brecht, Bertolt on life
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"What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence."

Brodsky, Joseph on life   

"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

Brooks, Phillips on life
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom."

Brown, Les on life
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"Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain."

Brown, William Adams on life
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"I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on."

Browning, Robert on life   

"This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning."

Buddha on life   

"On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him."

Buddha on life
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"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."

Buechner, Frederick on life
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"I think we're here for each other."

Burnett, Carol on life
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"Real life seems to have no plots."

Burnett, Ivy Compton on life   

"Life's but a day at most."

Burns, George on life
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"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life."

Burns, George on life
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"Life is a struggle, but not a warfare."

Burroughs, John on life   

"Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time."

Buscaglia, Leo on life
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"Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity."

Butler, Philip on life   

"Life is one long process of getting tired."

Butler, Samuel on life
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"To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it."

Butler, Samuel on life   

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"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."

Butler, Samuel on life   

"Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

Butler, Samuel on life   

"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."

Butler, Samuel on life   

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"When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse."

Byron, Lord on life   

"Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge."

Byron, Lord on life   

"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it."

Byron, Lord on life
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"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim."

Byron, Lord on life   

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."

Cabell, James Branch on life   

"Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter."

Caddy, Eileen on life
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"In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed."

Caesar, Sid on life
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"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams."

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro on life
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