Life & Living: Life Quotes

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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"It's very certain the desire of life prolongs it"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Between two worlds, life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

Carl Jung

"Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is, after all, a chain"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The best path through life is the highway"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

Henri Frederic Amiel

"There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate"

Robert Brault, Philosopher

Robert Brault

"It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all"

Jack London, Novelist

Jack London

"A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to, and familiar ones to listen to again"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart"

Ross Perot, Businessman

Ross Perot

"Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle"

Walt Whitman, Poet

Walt Whitman

"There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Into each life, some rain must fall"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything"

Anatole France, Novelist

Anatole France

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"It's a funny old world"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

Margaret Thatcher

"Develop an interest in life as you see it; the 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 live at the edge of the miraculous"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Life itself is a quotation"

Jorge Luis Borges, Poet

Jorge Luis Borges

"I'm a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

"Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"Ah, lives of men! When prosperous, they glitter - like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - a wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love, and death"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

E. M. Forster

"This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"She who knows life flows, feels no wear or tear, needs no mending or repair"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

Mark Zuckerberg

"Know how to drive safely when it's raining or when it's snowing. The two conditions are different"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"I come from this really small town near Nashville, Tennessee, where everything was la-di-da and normal"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

Miley Cyrus

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