Posts Tagged “Life”

• A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. ~ Leo Buscaglia
• Children are the reward of life. ~ Congolese Proverb
• Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded. ~ Antoine de Saint -Exupery
• Every day of your life is a page of your history. ~ Arabian Proverb
• For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
• For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment. ~ Viktor E. Frankl
• I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. ~ Joseph Campbell
• If life is fulfilled we go away with empty hands. ~ Chinese Proverb
• If you want your life to be meaningful, go out and do something about it. ~ Mary Louise Wiley
• Life has a meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. ~ Antoine De Saint-Exupery
• Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle! ~ Swahili Warrior Song
• Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it. ~ French Proverb
• Life is half spent before one knows what it is. ~ French Proverb
• Life is like this: sometimes sun, sometimes rain. ~ Fijian Proverb
• Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. ~ Joseph Campbell
• Life itself cannot give you joy.  Unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space – It’s up to you to fill it. ~ Chinese Proverb
• Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone-we find it with another. ~ Thomas Merton
• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none. ~ Richard M. DeVos
• People fool themselves. They pray for a long life but fear old age. ~ Chinese Proverb
• Purpose is what gives life a meaning. ~ Charles H. Parkhurst
• The happiest life ends before death. ~ Chinese Proverb
• The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. ~ Michael Jackson
• The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. ~ Leo Tolstoy
• To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep. ~ Chinese Proverb
• To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning in your life. ~ Paula P. Brownlee
• To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self. ~ William J. Durant
• When people are serving, life is no longer meaningless. ~ John W. Gardner

• There is a brighter side to every day
• There is a day to every night
• There is a night to every beginning
• There is a beginning to every end
• There is an end to every sorrow
• There is a sorrow for every gladness
• There is gladness in every event
• There is an event in every life
• There is life in everything
• Everything is God’s brighter side
• Always begin a new with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does. ~ George E. Woodberry
• Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it. ~ David Guy Powers
• Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly. ~ James Russell Lowell
• Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace. ~ Ronald Reagan
• If we only knew the real value of a day.~ Joseph Farrell
• If you’re still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.~ Joyce Chapman
• I grow old learning something new every day. ~ Solon
• I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. ~ Samuel Johnson
• Learn something new every single day. You will never get old if you do. ~ Lois Bey
• Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition. ~ Joe Carlozo
• The years teach us much the days never knew.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
• To a wise man every day is a new life. ~ Author Unknown
• Today is a new day.You will get out of it just what you put into it. ~ Mary Pickford
• We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.~ James Truslow Adams
• We turn not older with years, but newer every day.~ Emily Dickinson
• You have to set new goals every day.~ Julie Krone

• A life lived in love will never be dull.~ Leo Buscaglia
• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.~ Phillips Brooks
• Life is a temporary stop, death is the journey home.~ Vietnamese Proverb
• Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.~ Bertolt Brecht
• Even when months and days are long, life is short.~ Japanese Proverb
• For the first five years of your son’s life treat him as a prince, for the next ten years as a slave, then as a friend for the rest of his life.~ Indian Proverb
• He who wants what God wants of him will lead a free and happy life.~ Japanese Proverb
• I am not just here to make a living; I am here to make a life.~ Helice Bridges
• I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.~ Les Brown
• I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.~ Robert Browning
• In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.~ Sid Caesar
• In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.~ German Proverb
• It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.~ Irish Proverb
• It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.~ Evangeline Cory Booth
• It is precisely the uncertainty of this world that makes life worth living.~ Japanese Proverb
• It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.~ Lord Byron
• Leadership shortens life.~ Hebrew Proverb
• Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.~ Buddha
• Life’s but a day at most.~ George Burns
• Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.~ Indian Proverb
• Life is a long journey with a heavy bag on its back.~ Japanese Proverb
• Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.~ John Burroughs
• Life is like perpetual drunkenness, the pleasure passes but the headache remains.~ Iranian Proverb
• Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.~ Samuel Butler
• Life is like the flame of a lamp; it needs a little oil now and then.~ Indian Proverb
• Life is one long process of getting tired.~ Samuel Butler
• Life is the source of all things. ~ Japanese Proverb
• Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.~ Leo Buscaglia
• Live everyday fully as if it were your last.~ Buddha
• Live your own life, for you will die your own death.~ Latin Proverb
• Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.~ George Burns
• Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.~ Edmund Burke
• No fate is worse than a life without a love.~ Mexican Proverb
• One moment of intense happiness prolongs life by a thousand years.~ Japanese Proverb
• Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.~ Philip Butler
• People can be divided into three groups: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.~ Nicholas Murray Butler
• Real life seems to have no plots.~ Ivy Compton Burnett
• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.~ Nadia Boulanger
• The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first.~ French Proverb
• The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.~ James Branch Cabell
• The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.~ Joan Borysenko
• The secret of joy is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.~ Pearl S. Buck
• The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.~ Heywood Broun
• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.~ Buddha
• To enjoy life is worth so much more than it costs.~ French Proverb
• To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.~ Samuel Butler
• What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.~ Pedro  la Barca
• You are learning all your life and you die stupid.~ Lithuanian Proverb
• You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.~ Japanese Proverb

Make each day useful and cheerful and prove that you know the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be happy, old age without regret and life a beautiful success.~ Louisa May Alcott

Every day of your life is a page of your history.~ Arabian Proverb

Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.~ Woody Allen

Life, like a fire, begins in smoke and ends in ashes.~ Arabian Proverb

The less routine the more life.~ Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.~ Henri Frederic Amiel

Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s finger.~ Hans Christian Andersen

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering; and it’s all over much too soon.~ Woody Allen

Don’t ask in this life for the three most difficult things: good sons, long life and a long beard.~ Chinese Proverb

Your life is what your thoughts make it.~ Marcus Aurelius

• Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.~ George Ade
• Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.~ Isabelle Adfani
• Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time.~ Isabelle Adfani
• Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.~ Louisa May Alcott
• Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may… meet with great misfortunes.~ Aristotle
• Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.~ Woody Allen
• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering; and it’s all over much too soon.~ Woody Allen
• Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.~ Sholom Aleichem

• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
• Life is beauty, admire it.
• Life is bliss, taste it.
• Life is a dream, realize it.
• Life is a challenge, meet it.
• Life is a duty, complete it.
• Life is a game, play it.
• Life is a promise, fulfill it.
• Life is sorrow, overcome it.
• Life is a song, sing it.
• Life is a struggle, accept it.
• Life is a tragedy, confront it.
• Life is an adventure, dare it.
• Life is luck, make it.
• Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
• Life is life, fight for it.~ Mother Teresa’s