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Quotes About Life

The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will be ours if we continue our efforts courageously, even when at times they appear futile.
~ Unknown
Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.
~ Unknown
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe
~ Unknown
The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.
~ Alfred Adler
The tragedy of human life consists in our vain attempts to stretch the limits of things which can never become unlimited, to reach the infinite by absurdly adding to the rungs of the ladder of the finite.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education.
~ Unknown
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing what you love to do.
~ Anna Kournikova
And Summers and Winters scattered like splinters And four or five years slipped away
~ Jimmy Buffet
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
~ Katherine Anne Porter
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
~ Sir Walter Scott
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
~ William James
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.
~ James Stewart
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
~ Unknown
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude
~ Alfred North Whitehead
He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows: he breathes but does not live.
~ Proverb
The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
~ Herman Hesse
Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life
~ Eugene Delacroix
Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things
~ Marcel Proust
Pessimism is a very easy way out when you're considering what life really is, because pessimism is a short view of life - If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of man or the future of the world
~ Robertson Davies
What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic
~ Queen Victoria
Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.
~ Damian Marley
Fear not of evil Everyday dem flesh it grow old Changes of the time take the toll.
~ Damian Marley