lifes lessons that should be learned by all...and that everybody should live by
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of.
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
A useless life is an early death.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy. (that ones for tim !)
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.