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Welcome to this collection of Famous Sayings about Life. What is the nature of life? Life can be inspiring, sad, cruel, funny, or just surprising. Let these wise and famous sayings on life by famous people shed a new light on the breadth of life and living.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
-
Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-
Helen Keller
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
-
John Lennon
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
-
Confucius
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
-
Joseph Campbell
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
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.
-
Anais Nin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
-
Anais Nin
Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
-
Charles Dickens
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
-
Henry Ford
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
-
Tennessee Williams
Life is but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-
William Shakespeare
Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
-
Lou Holtz
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
-
Horace Walpole
Life is a long lesson in humility.
-
James M. Barrie
Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
-
Hugh Mackay
Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, ... you're wasting your life.
-
Jackie Robinson
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.
-
Leonardo da Vinci
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-
Samuel Butler
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
-
Sai Baba
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
-
Meister Eckhart
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
-
Ernest Holmes
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-
Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
-
Marie Curie
Be here now.
- Ram Dass
Courage doesn't always roar.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Count Your Blessings.
- Og Mandino
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Hope springs eternal.
- Alexander Pope
Happiness Is A Choice.
- Barry Neil Kaufman
Live Your Dreams.
- Les Brown
Never stop dreaming.
- Anonymous
Live with passion.
- Anthony Robbins
Never give up.
- Anonymous
Love conquers all.
- Virgil
Whatever it takes!
- Anonymous
Seize the day.
- Anonymous
Anything Is Possible.
- Anonymous
Damn the torpedoes.
- Admiral David Farragut
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Believe in yourself.
- Anonymous
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Keep the Faith.
- Anonymous
Success Leaves Clues.
- Jim Rohn
Do it Now!
- Napoleon Hill
Roll with the punches.
- Anonymous
Just Do it!
- Nike ad
God doesn't make junk.
- Anonymous
Follow Your Dreams.
- Anonymous
The buck stops here.
- Harry Truman
Life is a choice.
- Anonymous
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Anonymous
Follow your own star.
- Anonymous
Happiness Is A Choice.
- Barry Neil Kaufman
It's never too late.
- Anonymous
No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous
Faith can move mountains.
- Anonymous
Better late than never.
- Anonymous
Reach for the stars.
- Anonymous
Dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
- Mother Teresa
Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love is saying "I feel differently," instead of "You're wrong."
- Anonymous
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
True love has no limits.
- Anonymous
Love is not a mere sentiment. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.
- Rabindranath Tagore
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.
I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
I love you for that part of me you bring out.
- Roy Croft
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard
Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.
- Mother Teresa
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
-
Oscar Wilde
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
-
Oscar Wilde
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
-
Truman Capote
Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
-
Carl Sandburg
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.
-
Charles M. Schulz
Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.
- Peter McWilliams
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-
Woody Allen
Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.
-
Woody Allen
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
-
Mark Twain
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