Quotes and Sayings About Life
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
-- A. A. Milne -
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
-- A. A. Milne -
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
-- A. A. Milne -
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
-- A. A. Milne -
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
-- A. A. Milne -
I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
-- A. C. Benson -
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
-- A. C. Benson -
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman -
Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.
-- A. E. Housman -
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
-- A. E. Housman -
The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
-- A. P. Herbert -
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
-- A. P. Herbert -
Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life - life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.
-- A. Powell Davies -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
-- A. R. Ammons -
If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.
-- A.C. Grayling -
Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
-- A.J. Cronin -
I am tortured too. I am tortured by belly fat and magazine covers about how to please everyone but myself. I am tortured by sheep who click on anything that will guarantee a ten-pound loss in one week. Sheep who will get on their knees if it means someone will like them more. I am tortured by my inability to want to hang out with desperate sheep. I am tortured by ***** yearbooks full of bullshit. I met you when. I'll miss the times. I'll keep in touch. Best friends forever. Is this okay? Are you all right? Are you tortured too?
-- A.S. King -
I didn't think about anything past tomorrow because anything past tomorrow was just like cloud busting - it depended soley on the person looking at the clouds and it could rain any minute
-- A.S. King -
We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.
-- A.S. King -
Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
Let never man be bold enough to say, Thus, and no farther shall my passion stray: The first crime, past, compels us into more, And guilt grows fate, that was but choice, before.
-- Aaron Hill -
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
-- Aaron Yoo -
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . ."
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
-- Abigail Adams -
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
-- Abigail Van Buren
