Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.
Roger Zelazny
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy].
Michael Caine
Life is just a bowl of pits.
Rodney Dangerfield
Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.
Hugh Prather
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton
Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
Sir Thomas Malory
Zffff...what was that, sir? That was your life. Can I get another one? No, sorry.
Basil Fawlty
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
Michael J. Gelb
I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.
Lucy Lawless
...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
B. F. Skinner
Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.
Ian Philpot
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
Edna Ferber
Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
Edvard Munch
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
Edwin Way Teale
In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.
Elder Richard G. Scott
'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
Elizabeth Bishop
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
Erik Erikson, Dr.
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.
Etty Hilsum
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly awar.
Eugene Ionesco
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
Senator Everett Dirksen
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
George Bernard Shaw
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
George Bernard Shaw
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
Soren Kierkegaard
May you live to be a hundred years old, and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Frank Sinatra
I'm gonna live till I die.
Frank Sinatra
In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.
General Douglas MacArthur
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
Oprah Winfrey
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Horace Mann
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
M. C. Escher
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.
Horace Mann
One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
Ann Landers
Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
Friedrich Nietzsche
For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A profession is the backbone of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
Amor Fati – 'Love Your Fate', which is in fact your life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In order to write about life, first you must live it!
Ernest Hemingway
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
Oscar Wilde
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
Oscar Wilde
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Oscar Wilde
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Oscar Wilde
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
Oscar Wilde
Life imitates art more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Oscar Wilde
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
Oscar Wilde
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde
When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is.
Oscar Wilde
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Oscar Wilde
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Oscar Wilde
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
Clifford Stoll
The way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent van Gogh
Education is life itself.
John Dewey
School is not preparation for life, but school is life.
John Dewey
Live life to the fullest.
Ernest Hemingway
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
We just had a near-life experience!
Chuck Palahniuk
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
Chuck Palahniuk
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk
To live is to think.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Benjamin Disraeli
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Henry Ford
A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.
Yiddish proverb
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
Charles M. Schulz
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish proverb
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
John F. Kennedy
We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
I live for books.
Thomas Jefferson
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas Jefferson
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
Thomas Jefferson
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Carol Burnett
Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
Deepak Chopra
Dogbert: 'Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemon, make lemonade.' Dilbert: 'But i'm allergic to citrus.' Dogbert: 'Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up and die.'
Scott Adams
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.
John Lennon
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
Frank Sinatra
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
John Lennon
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert Frost
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Oprah Winfrey
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.
Oprah Winfrey
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey
There's no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.
Oprah Winfrey
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
Oprah Winfrey
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Oprah Winfrey
Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.
Harold B. Melchart
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Albert Camus
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.
Robin Norwood
Man always gets less than he demands from life.
Jack London
One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Rita Mae Brown
It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.
Lewis Carroll
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
Danny Kaye
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.
Piero Ferrucci
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
John Atkinson
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Death tugs at my ear and says: 'Live, I am coming.'
Oliver Wendell Holmes
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Lawana Blackwell
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.
Peter McWilliams
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
Terry Josephson
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor
Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
William Shakespeare
During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.
Tupac Shakur
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
William Shakespeare
Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.
William Shakespeare
Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
William Shakespeare
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace Mann
With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.
Horace Mann
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live simply that others may simply live.
Mahatma Gandhi
Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
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