LIFE QUOTES XXIX

quotations about life

Study more how to die than how to live; if you would live till you were old, live as if you were to die when you are young.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Life is a movement outward, an unfolding.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


Life is as the current spark on the miner's wheel of flints;
While it spinneth, there is light; stop it, all is darkness.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy

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He who loveth, knoweth the inner sun; he see'th Life's blaze.

ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT

"Arizona"


It's only life. We all get through it.

DEAN KOONTZ

Dark Rivers of the Heart

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The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

JEROME K. JEROME

"The Materialisation of Charles and Mivanway"

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Living is a hazardous profession.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne

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Our daily lives have a kaleidoscopic quality, a feeling of walking down a breakfast buffet and spooning out things onto your plate. And there's a lot to eat at this brunch of experience. Too many pineapple rings, too many sausages, too much syrup.

NICHOLSON BAKER

interview, Interview Magazine, September 16, 2013

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Q: Is life a dream or a meditation? A: Life is a meditation when you know it is a dream.

BABA HARI DASS

Yoga Journal, May 1977

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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

SENECA

Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales

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Anything in life is possible if you make it happen.

JACK LALANNE

Fiscal Fitness: 8 Steps to Wealth & Health from America's Leaders of Fitness

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Life is the tamer of the wild beast of humanity.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Childhood", A Soliloquy of Life

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A life ill spent makes a sad old age.

SPANISH PROVERB


Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

THEODOR W. ADORNO

Minima Moralia

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Life! Don't talk to me about life.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

ROBERT FULGHUM

Uh-Oh

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The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

A Free Man's Worship

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And life itself spoke this secret to me. "Behold," it said, "I am that which must ever overcome itself."

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.

NORA ROBERTS

Vision in White

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Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

JULIAN BARNES

The Sense of an Ending

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