Life Quotes
A small collection of quotes about life
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca
"Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier."
Alacia Bessette, Simply from Scratch, 2010
"Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor."
Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
"Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow."
Terri Guillemets
"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."
Jack Handey
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."
Havelock Ellis
"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekhov
"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
Seneca
"Life isn't simple. But the beauty of it is, you can always start over. It'll get easier."
Alacia Bessette, Simply from Scratch, 2010
"Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor."
Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
"Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow."
Terri Guillemets
"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."
Jack Handey
"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)