LIFE QUOTES XII

quotations about life

[A] carefully constructed life is a meticulous diversion from living.

J.R. KINNARD

"'Completely Unknown' Deals in Ambiguity and Subtle Charms", PopMatters, September 1, 2016


Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears,
A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

ARTHUR SYMONS

"In the Wood of Finvara"

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

letter to his son Eduard, Feb. 5, 1930

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If life be wretched, it is hard to bear it; if it be happy, it is horrible to lose it ; both come to the same thing.

JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE

"Of Mankind", Les Caractères


We've been told there's a certain way to live ... that this is living ... and we ... we never really questioned it. We just sort of went along. But what if it's not the best way? What if there's another way that's better? What if there's something more?!

WALTER WYKES

The Profession

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With only one example of life -- the stuff we see on Earth -- we don't really have a good, universally accepted definition of life. NASA some years ago defined life as "a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution." Not bad, but technically a single rabbit hopping around your garden is not alive, because by itself it can't reproduce.

JOEL ACHENBACH

"The 4 biggest milestones in the history of life on Earth", Albuquerque Journal, September 1, 2016


A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Mrs. Dalloway


There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

ANNE RICE

Servant of the Bones

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Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

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Into each life some rain must fall.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"The Rainy Day"

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Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

letter to Mrs. Martha Washington, Jun. 18, 1775

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For life, with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear, -- believe the aged friend --
Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

ROBERT BROWNING

A Death in the Desert

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A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

KEVIN LEMAN

Stopping Stress before It Stops You: A Game Plan for Every Mom

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Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

LOUISE ERDRICH

The Blue Jay's Dance

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The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

WILLIAM JOHN LOCKE

The Glory of Clementina


When life is cheap death is rich.

EDWARD ABBEY

One Life at a Time, Please

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Life, too much of it, and not enough. The fear that it will end some day, and the fear that tomorrow will be the same as yesterday.

JOHN UPDIKE

Rabbit is Rich


Well, you live your life the way you want, I live mine the way I want. We see who makes it farther.

DAVID BALDACCI

The Simple Truth

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Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

ROBERT FULGHUM

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