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Quotes about Life by admin | in Longevity [1] 1. Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice. - Lyman Abbott, Author 18-Dec-1835 - 22-Oct-1922 2. Well I just figure any man who risks his neck to save a dog's life isn't going to kill someone for gold teeth. - Alvin Adams, Businessman 16-Jun-1804 - 02-Sep-1877 3. Life is wasted on the living. - Douglas Adams, Writer 11-Mar-1952 - 11-May-2001 4. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact. James Truslow Adams, Historian 18-Oct-1878 - 18-May-1949 5. Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. Maude Adams, Actress 11-Nov-1872 - 17-Jul-1953 6. He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his priv - Samuel Adams, Revolutionary 27-Sep-1722 7. The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. - Joseph Addison, Writer 01-May-1672 - 17-Jun-1719 8. The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. - Alfred Adler, Psychologist 07-Feb-1870 - 28-May-1937 9. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it. - Scipio www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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Africanus, Soldier 10. One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. - Alvin Ailey, Dancer 05-Jan-1931 - 01-Dec-1989 11. In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. - Alvin Ailey, Dancer 05-Jan-1931 - 01-Dec-1989 12. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. - Mitch Albom, Writer 23-May-1958 13. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem, Writer 02-Mar-1859 - 13-May-1916 14. Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice. - Samuel Alexander, Philosopher 06-Jan-1859 - 13-Sep-1938 15. The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire. - William R. Alger, Writer 16. Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you. - Muhammad Ali, Athlete 17-Jan-1942 17. Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. - Saul Alinsky, Activist 30-Jan-1909 - 12-Jun-1972 18. Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. - James Allen, Author 19. All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts. - James Allen, Author 20. Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. - Krista Allen, Actress 05-Apr-1972 21. I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment. - Rick Allen, Musician www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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01-Nov-1963 22. Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. - Woody Allen, Director 01-Dec-1935 23. Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. - Woody Allen, Director 01-Dec-1935 24. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. - Woody Allen, Director 01-Dec-1935 25. My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. - Woody Allen, Director 01-Dec-1935 26. We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. - Isabel Allende, Writer 02-Aug-1942 27. Life is like an analogy. - Aaron Allston, Novelist 28. Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. - B. R. Ambedkar, Politician 14-Apr-1891 - 06-Dec-1956 29. The best path through life is the highway. - Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher 27-Sep-1821 30. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. - Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher 27-Sep-1821 31. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. - Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher 27-Sep-1821 32. Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence. - Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher 27-Sep-1821 33. Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal. - Martin Amis, Author 25-Aug-1949 34. To make a difference is just... I think... the purpose of what life is. - Anastacia, Musician www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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17-Sep-1973 35. My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident. - Hans Christian Andersen, Author 02-Apr-1805 - 04-Aug-1875 36. Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers. - Hans Christian Andersen, Author 02-Apr-1805 - 04-Aug-1875 37. Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. - Jean Anouilh, Playwright 23-Jun-1910 - 03-Oct-1987 38. Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. - Jean Anouilh, Playwright 23-Jun-1910 - 03-Oct-1987 39. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. Antisthenes, Philosopher 40. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying. - Joan of Arc, Celebrity 41. I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now. - Jeffrey Archer, Politician 15-Apr-1940 42. Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine. - Dido Armstrong, Musician 25-Dec-1971 43. I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. Chester A. Arthur, President 05-Oct-1830 - 18-Nov-1886 44. You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. Arthur Ashe, Athlete 10-Jul-1943 - 06-Feb-1993 45. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov, Scientist 02-Jan-1920 - 06-Apr-1992 46. New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. - Robert Asprin, Author 28-Jun-1946 47. Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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Roberto Assagioli, Psychologist 27-Feb-1888 - 23-Aug-1974 48. The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. Mary Astell, Writer 12-Dec-1666 - 11-May-1731 49. One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this. - John Astin, Actor 30-Mar-1930 50. The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. - Brooks Atkinson, Critic 28-Nov-1894 - 14-Jan-1984 51. Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. - Kevyn Aucoin, Artist 14-Feb-1962 - 07-May-2002 52. It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. - Bille August, Director 09-Nov-1948 53. We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. - Saint Augustine, Saint 13-Nov-0354 - 28-Aug-0430 54. Your life is what your thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 55. The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 56. To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 57. The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 58. The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 59. Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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60. Our life is what our thoughts make it. - Marcus Aurelius, Soldier 26-Apr-0121 - 17-Mar-0180 61. Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Sri Aurobindo, Philosopher 15-Aug-1872 - 05-Dec-1950 62. I don't think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films. - Paul Auster, Author 03-Feb-1947 63. 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, Leader 64. A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. - Francis Bacon, Philosopher 21-Jan-1561 - 09-Apr-1626 65. The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. - Francis Bacon, Philosopher 21-Jan-1561 - 09-Apr-1626 66. The great end of life is not knowledge but action. - Francis Bacon, Philosopher 21-Jan-1561 - 09-Apr-1626 67. The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot, Author 03-Feb-1826 - 24-Mar-1877 68. A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. - Walter Bagehot, Author 03-Feb-1826 - 24-Mar-1877 69. Life is a school of probability. - Walter Bagehot, Author 03-Feb-1826 - 24-Mar-1877 70. One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. - Robert T. Bakker, Scientist 24-Mar-1945 71. Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. - James A. Baldwin, Author 02-Aug-1924 - 01-Dec-1987 72. Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. - Hosea Ballou, Clergyman www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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30-Apr-1771 73. Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can. Anne Bancroft, Actress 17-Sep-1931 - 06-Jun-2005 74. In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music. - Chris Barber, Musician 17-Apr-1930 75. For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. - Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist 17-Jan-1600 - 25-May-1681 76. What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist 17-Jan-1600 - 25-May-1681 77. The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. - William Barclay, Theologian 05-Dec-1907 - 24-Jan-1978 78. Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty. - Djuna Barnes, Novelist 12-Jun-1892 - 18-Jun-1982 79. Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie, Playwright 09-May-1860 - 19-Jun-1937 80. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. - Dave Barry, Journalist 03-Jul-1947 81. Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. - Drew Barrymore, Actress 22-Feb-1975 82. I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. - Drew Barrymore, Actress 22-Feb-1975 83. The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time. - John Barrymore, Actor 15-Feb-1882 - 29-May-1942 84. The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about. - Maria Bartiromo, Journalist 11-Sep-1967 www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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85. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. - Bernard Baruch, Businessman 19-Aug-1870 - 20-Jun-1965 86. If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real. - Jacques Barzun, Educator 30-Nov-1907 87. This was almost two hours of factual documentary. In our audience ratings, barely no one left the programme. The whole of his life is so fascinating and people kept watching for that reason. - Martin Bashir, Journalist 19-Jan-1963 88. The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil. - Georges Bataille, Writer 16-Sep-1897 - 09-Jul-1962 89. I don't have anything to fix! I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't eat carbs. My life is just great now. Normal. Vanilla. - Jason Bateman, Actor 14-Jan-1969 90. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. Charles Baudelaire, Poet 09-Apr-1821 - 31-Aug-1867 91. How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born. - Birch Bayh, Politician 22-Jan-1928 92. Viewed narrowly, all life is universal hunger and an expression of energy associated with it. - Mary Ritter Beard, Historian 05-Aug-1876 - 14-Aug-1958 93. Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. - Simone de Beauvoir, Writer 09-Jan-1908 - 14-Apr-1986 94. I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. - Samuel Beckett, Playwright 13-Apr-1906 - 22-Dec-1989 95. My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you. - David Beckham, Athlete 02-May-1975 www.futurescopes.com/print/10674
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96. Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there. - Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician 25-Dec-1918 97. Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me. - Ahmed Ben Bella, Politician 25-Dec-1918 98. There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. - Saul Bellow, Novelist 10-Jun-1914 - 05-Apr-2005 99. The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers. - Ruth Benedict, Scientist 05-Jun-1887 - 17-Sep-1948 100. Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth. - Doug Coupland, Author 30-Dec-1961 Copyright 2002-2013, Quest Mercury Contact Us | Advertising | User Agreement | Privacy Policy Source URL: http://www.futurescopes.com/longevity/10674/quotes-about-life Links: [1] http://www.futurescopes.com/taxonomy/term/926
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