Quotes about life

"If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on life
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"In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal."

Nisami on life   

"Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."

Norris, Kathleen on life   

"Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared."

Nouwen, Henri on life
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"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."

O'Neill, Eugene on life   

"Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation"

O'Reilly, Radar on life
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"Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."

Osler, Sir William on life   

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."

Osler, Sir William on life   

"This also -- that I live, I consider a gift of God."

Ovid on life   

"We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so."

Pascal, Blaise on life   

"Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on life
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"Man is born to live and not to prepare to live."

Pasternak, Boris on life   

"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances."

Pavese, Cesare on life   

"You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction."

Peale, Norman Vincent on life   

"Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling."

Pepper, Claude D. on life   

"You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing."

Percy, Walker on life
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"Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories."

Piatt, Don on life   

"The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life."

Pilgrim, Peace on life
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"Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day."

Pilgrim, Peace on life   

"To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life -- bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace."

Pilgrim, Peace on life   

"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."

Pirandello, Luigi on life   

"Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it."

Platen on life   

"The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils."

Pliny The Elder on life   

"Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop."

Polgar, Alfred on life   

"We come and go just like ripples in a stream."

Politis, John V. on life   

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little."

Pope John XXIII on life   

"Life is too short to learn German."

Porson, R. on life   

"Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man."

Powell, Robert on life
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"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known."

Prather, Hugh on life
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"Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters."

Presser, Ross on life
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"Life -- how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere."

Pritchett, V. S. on life   

"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter."

Propp Jr., Fred on life
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"He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live."

Proverb on life   

"A light heart lives long."

Proverb on life
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"Live today for tomorrow it will all be history."

Proverb on life
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"Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do."

Proverb on life
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"Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it."

Proverb, French on life
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"In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

Proverb, German on life
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"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it."

Proverb, Indian on life
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"There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes."

Proverb, Persian on life