LIFE QUOTES VII
quotations about life
Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.
ERIC BERNE
What Do You Say After You Say Hello?
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
RUMI
attributed, When the Moon Slips Away: Rejoicing in Everyday Miracles
Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
letter to Kleiner, Cole, and Moe, October 1916
How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE
"The Dramatic Art of Life", Prose Fancies
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back. What you sow, you reap. What you give, you get. What you see in others, exists in you.
ZIG ZIGLAR
See You at the Top
Do not take life too seriously--you will never get out of it alive.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The heart is like an instrument whose strings
Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.
GERALD MASSEY
"Wedded Love"
Let us pounce
upon this red prey,
let us tear life
that passes throbbing
and lift together
our wild flight.
PABLO NERUDA
"The Condor"
I believe that this life is a journey home. Someone is calling us, someone we know as God, and whom others know by different names.
JAMES BEHRENS
Newton Citizen, May 19, 2016
To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations.
EMILY DICKINSON
letter to T. W. Higginson, winter 1871
Life is the great teacher.
JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses
Life is a constant education.
JESSICA REES
"It's vital that we rebuild local jazz...", Bridport & Lyme Regis News, September 1, 2016
Store well Life's sheaves, the grains of thought--
Your harvest will be good,
If sheaves are bound by ties of love,
And evil you've withstood.
ARDELIA COTTON BARTON
"Gathering of the Sheaves"
Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD
Woman's Day Magazine, Jun. 1, 2007
What would life be if these few years
Of thankless toil and bitter tears
Were all and naught beyond?
An utter failure void of hope,
A sunless maze of narrow scope
Where phantoms of despair would grope
Throughout its narrow bound.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Life's Fruition"
Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
LYMAN ABBOTT
Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.
GEORGE ELIOT
Romola
A truce to philosophy! -- Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.
MARY SHELLEY
The Last Man