Quotes on...
LIFE
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"Not all those who wander are lost."
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

"If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive."
Elbert Hubbard

"To have striven, to have made an effort,
to have been true to certain ideals --
this alone is worth the struggle.
We are here to add what we can to,
not to get what we can from, life."
Sir William Osler, 1849-1919
Canadian Physician, Medical Historian

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

Dale Carnegie

"Don't cry because it's over...
SMILE because it happened!"

" What is life?
Life is a gift...accept it
Life is an adventure...dare it
Life is a mystery...unfold it
Life is a game...play it
Life is a struggle...face it
Life is beauty...praise it
Life is a puzzle...solve it
Life is opportunity...take it
Life is sorrowful...experience it
Life is a song...sing it
Life is a goal...achieve it
Life is a mission...fulfill it"
--- Taken from Even Eagles Need a Push
---Author David McNally

"Contentment in not the fulfillment of what you want,
but the realization of how much you already have."

"To save your world
you asked this man to die;
Would this man,
could he see you now,
ask why?"
W. H. Auden,
Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of it's sorrow;
it empties today of its strength."
Corrie Ten Boom

"The true measure of life is
how long you exist after you're gone."
Garth Brooks

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying
to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends
on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

"It cannot be so, you say--
simple hands cannot change the fate of humanity.
I say humanity is a boundless, absorbing heart
transcending death & generations and centuries
absorbing bullets and stitches and tear gas,
enduring humiliation and illegal abortions
and thankless jobs. I say to you,
the heart of humanity has not
and will not be broken.
And let us raise ourselves
like lanterns with the millions of others-
with the mad and the forgotten
and the strong of heart-
to SHINE!
Jewel "YOU TELL ME"

"What does not destroy me, makes me strong."
Friedrich Nietzsche

"How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving,
and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because
someday you will have been all of these."
George Washington Carver

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."
Samuel Butler

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."
Unknown

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
Henry Ford

"The secret to life is that there is no secret."
"Swampman" on Quartz

"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen

"We must become the change we want to see."
Mahatma Gandhi

"Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment."
Rita Mae Brown

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."
Unknown

"If you cry over losing the sun, the tears will make it impossible to see the stars."
Unknown

"If you are afraid to die, you will not be able to live."
James Baldwin

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"
Robert Francis Kennedy, 1968 presidential campaign

"Nothing endures but change."
Heraclitus

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."
Mark Twain, What Is Man?

"Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time."
Motto of the Baltimore Grotto

"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

"What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams."
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

"Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
Hubert H. Humphrey

"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
Oscar Wilde

"Life is short; live it up."
Khrushchev

"Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars."
General George Catlett Marshall

"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth --
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up --
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."
Joe E. Lewis

"The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible."
Anonymous

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Eliot

"It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees."
Dolores Ibarruri

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."
Charlie Chaplin

"I will permit no man to narrow or degrade my soul by making me hate him."
Booker T. Washington

"Expect NOTHING. Live frugally on SURPRISE!"
Alice Walker

"The old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind."
Martin Luther King Jr.