Life sayings
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
William Shakespeare
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Rita Mae Brown
All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!
Bob Newhart
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
William Hurt
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
Seneca
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
Seneca
Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).
Hazrat Ali Ibn-e-Abi Talib
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
"I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
Captain Edmund Blackadder
"Mac, you ever been in love?" "Marshal, I've been a bartender all my life."
Unknown
#3546. Things happen according to the ordinary course of nature and the ordinary habits of life.
California Civil Code
'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
J. R. R. Tolkien
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Erica Jong
A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.
James Broughton
