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Saturday, September 26, 2015

Descriptions of Life


“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ~ Lou Holtz

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” ~ John Lennon

“Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Ghandi

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“May you live all the days of your life.” ~ Jonathan Swift

“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” ~ Nathan Hale

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller

“Life is a flower of which love is the honey.” ~ Victor Hugo

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” ~ Robert Frost

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Life is trying things to see if they work.” ~ Ray Bradbury

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ~ Nelson Mandela

“In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” ~ Frank Sinatra

“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” ~ Buddha

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” ~ Dr. Seuss

“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” ~ D. H. Lawrence

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” ~ Anthony Robbins

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” ~ Mark Twain

“All that we see and seem is but a dream within a dream.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.” ~ John Wooden

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” ~ Babe Ruth

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” ~ Maya Angelou

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.-Confucius

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” ~ James M. Barrie

“In order to write about life first you must live it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” ~ Dalai Lama

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” ~ Hans Christian Andersen

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” ~ Stephen Hawking

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest pleasure of life is love.” ~ Euripides

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” ~ Oscar Wilde

“There is only one happiness in life – to love and to be loved.” ~ George Sand

“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.” ~ Grandma Moses

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.” ~ Aristotle

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” ~ Charles Dickens

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life — to be happy — it’s all that matters.” ~ Audrey Hepburn

“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” ~ Seneca

“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.” ~ T. S. Eliot

“Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.” ~ William Blake

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.” ~ Henry David Thoreau

“A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” ~ Leo Buscaglia