Life Is Quotes (page 231)

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• waste
• gift
• life

Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there is little virtue, as well as little profit, in what once seemed to us the noblest part of our inheritance. Virginia Woolf

• life
• thinking
• winning

Life's battles don't always go to the strongest man; But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. Arnold Palmer

• life
• physics
• achievement

Life has a status in the physical universe. It is part of the order of nature. It has a high place in that order, since it probably represents the most complex state of organisation that matter has achieved in our universe. We on this planet have an especially proud place as men; for in us as men matter has begun to contemplate itself... George Wald

• life
• showers
• shower

Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. Stephen Fry

• pain
• responsibility
• life

Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy." Milton Erickson Milton H. Erickson

• god
• political
• manly

Life, faculties, production-in other words, individuality, liberty, property-this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Frederic Bastiat

• life
• dream
• life is a dream

Is all our life then, but a dream? Lewis Carroll

• rich
• war
• end

Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible. H. L. Mencken

• hard
• life
• powerful

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it. Sigmund Freud

• life
• happy
• good

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one? Thomas Mann

• greatness
• view
• great

Life's a climb. But the view is great. Miley Cyrus

• life sayings
• boring life
• sea

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn John Berryman

• waiting
• look
• comforting

Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you. Chuck Palahniuk

• life
• lies
• she

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. Henry Miller

• anxiety
• promise
• saying

Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver. Alain de Botton