Life & Living: Life Quotes

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"As I grow to understand life less and less, I grow to love it more and more"

Jules Renard, Dramatist

Jules Renard

"Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

Cesare Pavese

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment!"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

Ludwig Wittgenstein

"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

Freddie Mercury

"I try to conduct my life with a little levity"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

Sheryl Crow

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing"

Agatha Christie, Writer

Agatha Christie

"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars"

Garrison Keillor, Writer

Garrison Keillor

"Life is lived on the edge"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable"

Madeleine L'Engle, Novelist

Madeleine L'Engle

"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

Omar N. Bradley

"Life's as kind as you let it be"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25, most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations, we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

Arthur Conan Doyle

"I have three closets in my bedroom"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

Vanessa Hudgens

"I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is"

Martina Navratilova, Athlete

Martina Navratilova

"Life is just a journey"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

Nikita Khrushchev

"Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"We think that it's the big moments that define our lives-the wedding, the baby, the new house, the dream job. But really, these big moments of happiness are just the punctuation marks of our personal sagas. The narrative is written every day in the small, the simple, and the common. In your tiny choices, in these tiny changes. In the unconsidered. The overlooked. The discarded. The reclaimed"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

Solomon Ibn Gabriol

"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other"

Sean O'Casey, Playwright

Sean O'Casey

"Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation"

James Thurber, Comedian

James Thurber

"Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact"

James Truslow Adams, Historian

James Truslow Adams

"It is not a fragrant world"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

Raymond Chandler

"There are three things we cry about in life, things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"The scene then, as now, was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

Kenneth Noland

"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"To be alive at all involves some risk"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

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