QUOTATIONS: LIFE
Updated March 20, 2000
"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world is a looking glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion." -William Makepeace Thackeray
"If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would pick more daisies. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones." -Don Herold
"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." -Albert Camus
"I have seen yesterday, I love today, I am not afraid of tomorrow." -Chrystal Whitzel
"The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make." -Aristotle
"To live you have to experiment, to have the ability to experiment you have to have confidence, to have confidence you have to be loved, to be loved you have to love." -Unknown
"The quality of life is determined by its activities" -Aristotle
"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough." -Irwin Shaw
"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory." -Antonio Porchia
One day at a time -- this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering." -Ida Scott Taylor
"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." -Susan Ertz
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one." -Stella Adler
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." -A. A. Milne
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room." -Anita Koddick
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." -Marcus Aurelius
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters" -Abigail Van Buren
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." -Robert Frost
"Thing big thoughts but relish small pleasures." -H. Jackson Brown, JR.
"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching..." -Unknown
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." -E. E. Cummings
"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." -Wittgenstein
"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center." - Kurt Vonnegut
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." -Aldous Huxley
"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth." -Virginia Satir
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them." -Mother Teresa
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it." -Helen Keller
"From what we get we can make a living, what we give, however, makes a life." -Arthur Ashe
"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it." -Robert Oppenheimer
"Be like a duck. Calm on the surface but always paddling like the dickens underneath." -Michael Caine
"To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you like everybody else, is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." -Confucius
"Know thyself." -Socrates
"We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children." -Haida Indian saying
"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." -Lin Yutang
"Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there." -Josh Billings
To love what we do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?" -Katherine Graham
"Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Unknown
"Yesterday is a cancelled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so spend it wisely." -Kay Lyons
"Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it." -Samuel Smiles
"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an expreiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment." -Oprah Winfrey
"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not." -Hannah Whitall Smith
"In order to make your dreams come true, you must awaken and take charge." -Natasha Newsome
"Life is so much easier if you learn to love the things you have than yearn for the things you don't." -From One True Thing
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." -James Dean
"We just don't recognize the most significant moments of our lives while they're happening." -Field of Dreams
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." -Henry David Thoreau
"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." -Anne Frank
"Our life is what our thoughts make it." -Marcus Aurelius Antonius
"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -Gilda Radner
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." -Helen Keller
"Life is like a rollercoaster, it has it's ups and downs, but when part of it is over, you wish you could do it again." -Andrew A. Hagen
"Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!" -Robert Fulghum
"And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be." -Grandma Moses
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." -James Broughton
"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion." -Abraham Lincoln
"You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair." -Chinese Proverb
"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." -Richard Bach
