Life & Living: Life Quotes

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"I didn't study; I live"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

Eric Cantona

"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again"

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"Life is generally something that happens elsewhere"

Alan Bennett, Dramatist

Alan Bennett

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

Wilhelm Wundt

"Life is made up of marble and mud"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes"

Carl Friedrich Gauss, Mathematician

Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

Katharine Hepburn

"I always thought the point was to have a bigger life, to meet more people. So I don't understand Hollywood"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

Carl Sandburg

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

Henry Ellis

"There is no easy path leading out of life, and few easy ones that lie within it"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much"

George Harrison, Musician

George Harrison

"I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep"

Andy Warhol, Artist

Andy Warhol

"You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want"

George Harrison, Musician

George Harrison

"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity!"

Emile Zola, Novelist

Emile Zola

"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things"

Frank Howard Clark, Writer

"Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations"

Alan Dundes, Educator

"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life"

Natalie Portman, Actress

Natalie Portman

"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized"

Mike Ditka, Coach

Mike Ditka

"My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

"The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke; it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months"

Giacomo Casanova, Celebrity

Giacomo Casanova

"They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

Shia LaBeouf

"It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"I was never trained for anything"

Alan Ladd, Actor

"Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices"

Paul Tournier, Author

"But this is life on earth, you can't have everything"

William Goldman, Novelist

"Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy, there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light"

Georg Brandes, Critic

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