Life Is Quotes - Page 5

• Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Blessing, Trying

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  In Plato 'Apology' 38a

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• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

  Ogden Nash

  Life, Cute, Men

  1942 Good Intentions,'You and Me and P. B. Shelley'.

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• Life is too short to be serious

  Cory Monteith

  Life Is Too Short, Serious, Too Short

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• Life is too short to be organized

  Kendall Schmidt

  Life Is Too Short, Too Short, Organized

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  The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Happiness, Happy

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• This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.

  Susan Polis Schutz

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Susan Polis Schutz (1978). “Yours If You Ask”, Blue Mountain Arts

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5

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• Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Smile, Graduation

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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Life is too short to be miserable.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life Is Too Short, Life Is Short, Miserable

  Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins

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• Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Inspirational, Life, Bad Ass

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• A useless life is an early death.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Life, Art, Pain

  "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911

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• Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Christopher Isherwood (1987). “The Wishing Tree: Christopher Isherwood on Mystical Religion”, Vedanta Press

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• Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.

  Walter Bagehot

  Life, Courage, War

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• Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

  Alan Bennett

  Inspirational, Life, Moving Forward

  1960 Beyond the Fringe.

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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

  R. D. Laing

  Funny, Life, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Love, Inspirational Life, Cute Life

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.317, Faber & Faber

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• Life is an incurable disease.

  Abraham Cowley

  Life, Success, Disease

  "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)

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• The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Life, Spiritual, Disease

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• Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

  Wally Amos

  Life, Success, Cheer

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