Life Is Quotes - Page 31

• Life is one long struggle to disinter oneself, to keep one's head above the accumulations, the ever deepening layers of objects ... which attempt to cover one over, steadily, almost irresistibly, like falling snow.

  Rose Macaulay

  Struggle, Fall, Long

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• Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in beliefs, ideas and possessions. The sterile radical, too, is basically conservative. He is afraid to let go of the ideas and beliefs he picked up in his youth lest his life be seen as empty and wasted.

  Eric Hoffer

  Letting Go, Ideas, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Republic, Danger

  Mark Twain, John S. Tuckey (1972). “Mark Twain's Fables of Man”, p.392, Univ of California Press

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• No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Helping, Grows, Happenings

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• If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.

  Julianna Margulies

  Children, Home, Love Life

  Source: variety.com

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• All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Dream, Life Is A Dream

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• There are so many traps. There are so many opportunities. Life is a river and we take our boat and we go down it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Opportunity

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• No great, inspiring culture of the future can be built upon the moral principle of relativism. For at its bottom such a culture holds that nothing is better than anything else, and that all things are in themselves equally meaningless. Except for the fragments of faith (in progress, in compassion, in conscience, in hope) to which it still clings, illegitimately, such a culture teaches every one of its children that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing.

  Michael Novak

  Children, Compassion, Progress

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• The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

  Clarence Darrow

  Life, Men, Purpose

  "Infidels and Heretics: An Agnostic's Anthology". Book by Clarence Darrow and Wallace Rice, 1929.

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• I call'd the devil, and he came, And with wonder his form did I closely scan; He is not ugly, and is not lame, But really a handsome and charming man. A man in the prime of life is the devil, Obliging, a man of the world, and civil; A diplomatist too, well skill'd in debate, He talks quite glibly of church and state.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Skills, Church

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.210

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• It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

  Alfred Adler

  Believe, Long, Done

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• All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Life, Doe, Able

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• Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

  Georges Braque

  Men, Poetry, Painting

  Georges Braque (1964). “Georges Braque, 1882-1963: An American Tribute”

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• Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Humor, Perspective

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• To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Real, Home

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Life is hard if you think it's hard.

  Tom Robbins

  Thinking, Life Is Hard, Ifs

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.85, Bantam

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• Only by pursuing the extremes in one's nature, with all its contradictions, appetites, aversions, rages, can one hope to understand a little - oh, I admit only a very little - of what life is about.

  Francoise Sagan

  Aversion, Littles, Rage

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Guilt, Doctrine, Strikes

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.954, Penguin

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• You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity.

  Mooji

  Spontaneity, Living My Life, Asks

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• Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Pain, Drink, Pleasure

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• The man who has no inner life is a slave of his surroundings, as the barometer is the obedient servant of the air.

  Lisa Alther

  Men, Air, Slave

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• Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

  Meher Baba

  Honest, Sincerity, Sincere

  Meher Baba (1977). “Meher Baba on Inner Life: The Mystical Side of Self-realization”

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• Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

  Pema Chodron

  Life Is Like, Standards, Knows

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is best spent in alleviating pain, assuaging distress, and promoting peace and joy. The service of man is more valuable than what you call “service to God.” God has no need of your service. Pleas man, you please God.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Pain, Men, Joy

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• Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

  Anthony Burgess

  Opposites, Moral, Entity

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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