Quotes about life

"A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope."

Epictetus on life
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"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."

Epictetus on life
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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs..."

Epicurus on life   

"Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still."

Erickson, Lou on life   

"Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred."

Facult, F. Paul on life
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"Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns."

Feidelson, Charles on life   

"I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason."

Field, Joanna on life   

"Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream."

Fields, W. C. on life
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"My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone."

Foreman, George on life   

"Life -- No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week."

Forster, Edward M. on life   

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life   

"Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human."

Frankl, Viktor E. on life
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"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late"

Franklin, Benjamin on life
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"Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first."

Franklin, Benjamin on life   

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on life
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."

Fulghum, Robert on life
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"Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live."

Fuller, Margaret on life
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on life
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"The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it."

Gable, Clark on life   

"Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it"

Gables, Anne Of Green on life
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"There is more to life than simply increasing its speed."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"The old Quaker was right: I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once. "

Gannett, W. C. on life   

"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on life   

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on life   

"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on life   

"Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!"

Gauguin, Paul on life   

"Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die."

Gellert on life   

"People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age."

Giles, Henry on life   

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"Life is the childhood of our immortality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation."

Goldsmith, Oliver on life
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"Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over."

Goldsmith, Oliver on life   

"Life is supposed to get tough."

Grammer, Kelsey on life   

"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."

Gusoff, Adrienne on life   

"May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live."

Hanks, Tom on life