Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 2)

"I bear a charmed life"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes"

Anne Baxter, Actress

"Everything in life is luck"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony"

Lou Reed, Musician

"Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain, Author

"Make your life a mission - not an intermission"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

"Love is the river of life in the world"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"No one is happy all his life long"

Euripides, Poet

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life"

Confucius, Philosopher

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"

Seneca, Philosopher

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again"

Jean Renoir, Director

"Life is an illusion, and we must create our own reality"

Humayun Ahmed, Author

"Life is too short, and I'm Italian. I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

"I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid"

John Wayne, Actor

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

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