LIFE QUOTES XXIV

quotations about life

You know your life needs more excitement when your greatest challenge all week is removing the lint from your dryer's lint-screen all in one piece!

TOM WILSON

Ziggy, Jan. 16, 1998

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The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

ECKHART TOLLE

The Power of Now

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Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.

ANITA BROOKNER

The Paris Review, fall 1987

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It's over before you know it. It all goes by so fast. Yeah the bad nights take forever, and the good nights don't ever seem to last.

TOM PETTY

The Best of Everything

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Life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Reveries over Childhood and Youth

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The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

ROBERT M. PIRSIG

Lila

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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

attributed, Humanimal

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Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

V. S. NAIPAUL

Half a Life

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When something makes no sense, sometimes you make something of it. A joke. A spiritual practice. A life.

HEATHER SELLERS

Good Housekeeping, Jan. 2011


To keep from dying is not the same as "to live."

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Harkonnen

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The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

JAMES BALDWIN

Another Country

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He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach -- that it makes no sense.

PHILIP ROTH

American Pastoral


Mortal! that cull'st the flowers of life,
Think not to escape the thorn.

WILLIAM B. TAPPAN

"The Thorn of Life"

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I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

GUY DE MAUPASSANT

"Miss Harriet"

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Life divine! O life eternal!
Man cannot translate the thought.
Strong the chain that God hath welded;
Link on link hath chain been wrought.
Fabric new each day is woven,
Woven it on God's own loom.
We the threads can ne'er unravel,
Hidden they in Nature's womb.

ARDELIA COTTON BARTON

"Dost Thou Know?"

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Life is a song, rhythmic and sweet,
Love is its tune;
Treble and base blended in one,
Perfect as June.

ELIZA H. MORTON

"The Song of Life"


Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman

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Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

JOHN C. MAXWELL

The Power of Thinking Big

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What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

DORIS LESSING

The Golden Notebook

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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.

BERTOLT BRECHT

On Politics and Society

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