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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poet · English · 1806 – 1861

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Poet · American · 1803 – 1882

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Dramatist · Irish · 1856 – 1950

With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life.

Bruce Beresford

Director · Australian · b. 1940

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

Henry Miller

Author · American · 1891 – 1980

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Journalist · British · 1903 – 1990

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Author · American · b. 1926

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Franz Kafka

Novelist · Austrian · 1883 – 1924

The more complicated this society becomes, the greater the need is to simplify your life.

Darren L. Johnson

Author · American

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Wallace Stevens

Poet · American · 1879 – 1955

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Neale Donald Walsch

Author

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

President · American · 1890 – 1969

How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

Robert Browning

Poet · English · 1812 – 1889

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

Poet · American · 1888 – 1965

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

George Orwell

Author · British · 1903 – 1950

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Mohandas Gandhi

Leader · Indian · 1869 – 1948

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Samuel Richardson

Novelist · English · 1689 – 1761

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

E. M. Forster

Novelist · English · 1879 – 1970

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Fran Lebowitz

Journalist · American · b. 1951

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

Novelist · American · 1899 – 1961

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

Josiah Royce

Philosopher · American · 1855 – 1916

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Aristotle

Philosopher · Greek

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

David Herbert Lawrence

Writer · English · 1885 – 1930

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Writer · American · 1859 – 1915

Divine life is in touch with the whole universe on the analogy of the soul's contact with the body.

Muhammed Iqbal

Poet · Indian · 1877 – 1938

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Miguel de Cervantes

Novelist · Spanish · 1547 – 1616

Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

Plato

Philosopher · Greek

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

James Russell Lowell

Poet · American · 1819 – 1891

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

W. Somerset Maugham

Playwright · British · 1874 – 1965

Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.

Bryant H. McGill

Poet · American · b. 1969

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Francis Bacon

Philosopher · English · 1561 – 1626

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Henry Van Dyke

Poet · American

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Anais Nin

Author · American · 1903 – 1977

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Friedrich Schiller

Dramatist · German · 1759 – 1805

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

James Lovelock

Scientist · English · b. 1919

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here.

Renny Harlin

Director · Finnish · b. 1959

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Lao Tzu

Philosopher

I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.

Martha Beck

Author · American · b. 1962

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