Quotes about life

"Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans."

Lennon, John on life
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"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

Leslie, H. T. on life
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"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."

Lewis, Joe E. on life
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"Where there is life there is wishful thinking."

Lieberman, Gerald F. on life   

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

Lin Yu-tang on life
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"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Lincoln, Abraham on life
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"The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence."

Linkletter, Art on life   

"Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on life   

"Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on life   

"Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find tomorrow on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday's defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, If I had my life to live over again. Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again."

Mandino, Og on life
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"The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't."

Mankiewicz, Joseph L. on life
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"Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel."

Mansfield, Katherine on life   

"Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity."

Marcos, Imelda on life   

"We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life."

Markham, Edwin on life   

"It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead."

Markiewicz, William on life   

"Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about."

May, Rollo on life   

"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

Mccarthy, Mary on life
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"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect."

McMillan, Terry on life
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"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time."

Mead, Margaret on life   

"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can."

Menander of Athens on life
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"Life is a dead-end street."

Mencken, H. L. on life   

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over."

Millay, Edna St. Vincent on life   

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

Mille, Agnes De on life   

"Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets."

Miller, Henry on life
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"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on life
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"Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest."

Mizner, Wilson on life   

"My art and profession is to live."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on life   

"The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on life   

"The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up."

Morgan, Charles on life
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"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Morley, Christopher on life
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"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

Moses, Grandma on life   

"This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge."

Mountain, Marian on life   

"Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get."

Movie, Forrest Gump on life   

"Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training."

Mumford, Lewis on life   

"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten."

Mumford, Lewis on life   

"Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it."

Munger, Thornton T. on life   

"Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one."

Nabokov, Vladimir on life
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"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."

Nash, Ogden on life   

"Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share."

Nee, Watchman on life   

"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."

Newman, Peter C. on life