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Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.
Bruyere, Jean de La

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether To answer this question at all implies a religion. Is there any sense then, you ask, in putting it I answer, the man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
Einstein, Albert

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Fischer, Martin H.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.
Pirandello, Luigi

To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.
Proverb

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
Author, Unknown

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go."
Angelou, Maya

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Author, Unknown

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Fromm, Erich

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Miller, Arthur

... the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Luce, Clare Boothe

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Arnold, Matthew

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
Giraudoux, Jean

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
Allport, Gordon

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hair stylist you like.
Unknown, Author

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
Young, Edward

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
Porchia, Antonio

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.
Allen, Fred

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Byrne, Robert

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Lloyd, Chris Evert

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within.
Author, Unknown

The magnitude of life is overwhelming. Angels are here to help us take it peace by peace.
Waters, Levende

The philosophy of mine earth can be summed up as this: Sunshine creates happiness, and I create myself. Nights are long and life is predominantly good. Wind is refreshing. Tea is wisdom. Do the best you can, and be good to yourself so that you can above all be good to others.
Adams, Jessi Lane

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Anderson, Hans Christian

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Einstein, Albert

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Miller, Henry

A useless life is an early death.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

If there is a sin against life, it consist perhaps not so much in despairing of life as hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. Albert Camus
Author, Unknown

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
Author, Unknown

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Adamic, Louis

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
Wholey, Dennis

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
Brown, Charlie

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Vries, Peter De

Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock.
Allen, Woody

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.
Law, Agnes'

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.
Stacy

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
Adams, Douglas

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.
Porchia, Antonio

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
White, E. B.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.
Adams, Douglas

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.
Jefferson, Thomas

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Proverb, Chinese

Life's too short for chess.
Byron, Henry James

Life is the sum of all your choices.
Camus, Albert

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
Hawking, Stephen

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.
Adler, Alfred

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.
Anderson, Sherwood

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought h
Author, Unknown

Let me give you one definition of ethics: It is good to maintain life and to further life; it is bad to damage and destroy life. And this ethic, profound, universal, has the significance of a religion. It is religion.
Shaw, George Bernard

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Johnson, Samuel

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
Crisp, Quentin

Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.
Alius, Corri

Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
Crampton, Bruce

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
White, E. B.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
Waller, Robert James

My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot.
Brilliant, Ashleigh

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.
Rockefeller, John D.

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
Phelps, William Lyon

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Horney, Karen

Have you noticed that life, real honest-to-goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in the newspapers?
Anouilh, Jean

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.
Landon, Michael

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure of anything, and many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here, and what the question might mean. I might think about it a little bit, but if I can't figure it out, then I go on to something else. But I don't have to know an answer... I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell, possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Feynman, Richard Phillips

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Adams, Douglas

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
Carrey, Jim

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Dickinson, Emily

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.
Unknown, Author

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Keillor, Garrison

He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life.
Bibesco, Elizabeth

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.
Darrow, Clarence

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the creator, there is no poverty.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
Rilke, Rainer Maria

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
Abbey, Edward

I thought your line was great about, uh,"life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." I mean, it's completely true.
Allen, Woody

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.
Anonymous

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
Brooks, Phillips

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Unknown, Author

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
Addison, Joseph

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
Bach, Richard

If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.
Einstein, Albert

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Gill, Brendan

God writes a lot of comedy. The trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Keillor, Garrison

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Mencken, H.L.

Life's not always fair. Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow.
Morgen, Cherralea

Why torture yourself when life 'll do it for you?
Unknown, Author

I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?
James, William

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Allen, Woody

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Franklin, Benjamin

Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off. The right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases.
Maksian, Rick