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Quotes About Life

Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
~ Unknown
The Bible says this life is really like a puff of smoke. I don't want to strive and stress and be anxious over a puff of smoke when I have eternity to look forward to.
~ Unknown
Always stalled by hidden fears, Always stuck in neutral gears Until I gave the driver's seat away. Take my life and make it real. Turn the key and take the wheel. Push the throttle through the floor, evermore..
~ Unknown
If it (life) is a rhythm, I have found my perfect beat!
~ Unknown
Every blade will wither and fade, As the old man dies again. Seasons pass, We're clinging to grass, 'Cause we've lost the sky again.
~ Unknown
Health is a moral issue. It is about life and death first. Money comes second. Trump and the Republicans' vision for health care reform must be about more than repealing Obamacare. It must be about more than insurance. It must create a clear, positive path for twenty-first-century health and health care.
~ Newt Gingrich
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
~ Unknown
Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.
~ Ne-Yo
Woman is the mother of life, For she is the one who carries the womb of life. Woman is the carrier of creation. We show her gratitude always.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
Tus propias acciones son un espejo mejor de tu vida que todas las acciones juntas de tus enemigos.
~ Ngugi wa Thiong'o
The success of a civilization is measured not just in its aesthetic achievements but also, and surely more importantly, in the duration and quality of life of its citizens.
~ Niall Ferguson
Conceptio culpa Nasci pena Labor vita Necesse mori 'Conception is sin, birth is pain, life is toil, death is inevitable.
~ Niall Ferguson
We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn't endure the certainty of suffering.
~ Niall Williams
recited the dictum of Felix Pilkington, 'Life is a comedy, with sad bits.
~ Niall Williams
I am resolved on a career of reparation,' he said. 'And have you? Made amends?' 'It is one of the tragedies of life, that life keeps getting in the way of good intentions. I've made some. I'll make more.
~ Niall Williams
I know now that, when you get to a grandfather's age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.
~ Niall Williams
hardship had been part of history for so long it had become a condition of life. There was no expectation things could, or would, be otherwise. You got on with it, and through faith, family and character accommodated as best you could whatever suffering and misfortune was yours.
~ Niall Williams
Nobody who's lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything.
~ Niall Williams
Her mind was like a bookcase whose shelves had been pulled away, leaving the books pell-mell. All the stories of her life were in there, only confounded one into the other.
~ Niall Williams
He had a stillness like white linen folded inside him. But when he heard in the man's tone the desperate beseeching for life, Hadja Bannerje felt the grief rumple him like an illness of the stomach and acknowledged in himself the awfulness of reaching this place at the end of medicine. This, he thought, is beyond the last page of all the books I have studied. This is a place further than prescription.
~ Niall Williams
although she doesn't know it yet here's Love and Death in the same breath
~ Niall Williams
The parts of our lives when we write them down seem to belong in different books, by different writers even. What all these bits and pieces make up I don't know. There is no plot. Perhaps meaning is something we invent afterward, putting it all together, like imagined God.
~ Niall Williams
all of them would be gone but be like remembered music or the amassed richness of a lived life.
~ Niall Williams