Quotes III

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
Jean de La Bruyère

When life gives you lemons, cut them in half and squirt life in the eye!
Author Unknown

In three words I can sum up what I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
Kathleen Norris

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass... It's about learning to dance in the rain.
Author Unknown

We don’t live as we wish, but as we can.
Terence
Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.
Regina Brett

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
Suzanne Weyn

How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.
Alice Cary
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Author Unknown

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching. and live like it's heaven on earth.
Mark Twain

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.
Lao-Tzu
However many ways there may be of being alive, it is certain that there are vastly more ways of being dead, or rather not alive.
Richard Dawkins

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry Seinfeld

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.
Carl Sandburg

Life is too short, so kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly.
Author Unknown

That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.
Emily Dickinson

A beautiful flower begins its life in the dirt.
Author Unknown

About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Rita Mae Brown

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
A man’s dying is more a survivor’s affair than his own.
Thomas Mann

Death is to stop sinning suddenly.
Unknown author

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Albert Einstein
We should always have our boots on, and be ready to leave.
Montaigne
There is no cure for birth and death unless to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana

People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering.
St. Augustine

I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or
catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Howard Thurman

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack London

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury; and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
William Ellery Channing

O, with what freshness,
what solemnity and beauty,
is each new day born;
as if to say to insensate man,
'Behold!
thou hast one more chance!
Strive for immortal glory!'
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete.
If you're alive, it isn't. 
Richard Bach