Life & Living: Life Quotes

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"All of life is a foreign country"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something"

William Goldman, Novelist

"But I came from a conservative Republican background"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"The inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the richness of the soil, live an easy and pleasant life"

John Lawson, Explorer

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it"

Sai Baba, Leader

"Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man"

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

William Shakespeare

"Life is just one damned thing after another"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

Elbert Hubbard

"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is not fair; get used to it"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life, in its real sense, is lost"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important"

Jon Secada, Musician

Jon Secada

"This is the strangest life I've ever known"

Jim Morrison, Musician

Jim Morrison

"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive"

Mel Brooks, Comedian

Mel Brooks

"I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

"Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"Jamaica has problems; America has problems; everywhere has problems"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act"

Truman Capote, Novelist

Truman Capote

"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

Tom Lehrer

"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

Jimmy Buffett

"Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live"

Isaac Rosenberg, Poet

Isaac Rosenberg

"There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing"

Laurel Clark, Astronaut

Laurel Clark

"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"Life! Can't live with it, can't live without it"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter"

Holly Near, Musician

"In London, nobody comments on what you wear - they think that's not important to you or your state of well-being"

Steven Berkoff, Actor

Steven Berkoff

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between"

Diane Ackerman, Poet

"Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training"

Fay Godwin, Photographer

"It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either"

Lynn Davies, Athlete

Lynn Davies

"I love life because what more is there?"

Anthony Hopkins, Actor

Anthony Hopkins

"Life is a tragedy full of joy"

Bernard Malamud, Novelist

"All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected"

Rudy Rucker, Scientist

"Life is a series of commas, not periods"

Matthew McConaughey, Actor

"Thank God, I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time, it just gets out of proportion and you lose touch completely with reality"

Sam Mendes, Director

"All the freaky people make the beauty of the world"

Michael Franti, Musician

Michael Franti

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