Browsing Quotes With Tag: life (97)
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You live and learn. At any rate you live
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:34 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life… is like a grapefruit. It’s orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:33 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:32 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring, and worthier than we are.
Speaker: John Mason BrownPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities, or their evasion. It is the business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Speaker: Ben Amos WilliamsPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing about.
Speaker: VoltairePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The waters of life can be very deep, and we are not shallow because we struggle with them.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To do well does not mean everything will always turn out well.
Speaker: David E. SorensenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was duty.
I acted, and behold –
Duty was joy.Speaker: TagorePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:16 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.
Speaker: Gordon B. HinckleyPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
Speaker: SantayanaPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:17 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Speaker: Logan Pearsall SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened.
Speaker: Michel de MontaignePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within can say:
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.Speaker: HoracePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Compared with marriage, being born is a mere episode in our careers, and dying a trivial incident.
Speaker: Dorothy DixPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:49 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad. Just like what my sister said when I had been in the hospital for a while. She said that she was really worried about going to college, and considering what I was going through, she felt really dumb about it. But I don’t know why she would feel dumb. I’d be worried, too. And really, I don’t think I have it any better or worse than she does. I don’t know. It’s just different. Maybe it’s good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said, Because it’s okay to feel things. And be who you are about them.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s like if I blamed my aunt Helen, I would have to blame her dad for hitting her and the friend of the family that fooled around with her when she was little. And the person that fooled around with him. And God for not stopping all this and things that are much worse. And I did do that for a while, but then I just couldn’t anymore. Because it wasn’t going anywhere. Because it wasn’t the point.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.
Speaker: Stephen ChboskyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 4:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“So I will tell you something. Listen. Listen closely.
Of all that breathes and crawls across the earth,
Our mother earth breeds nothing feebler than a man.
So long as the gods grant him power, spring in his knees,
He thinks he will never suffer affliction down the years.
But then, when the happy gods bring on the long hard times,
Bear them he must, against his will, and steel his heart.
Our lives, our mood and mind as we pass across the earth,
Turn as the days turn…
As the father of men and gods makes each day dawn.” AmphinomusSpeaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
That is the gods’ work, spinning threads of death
through the lives of mortal men,
and all to make a song for those to come…Speaker: HomerPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 10:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!