LIFE QUOTES XL

quotations about life

Life is distressing insomuch as we give exaggerated importance to altogether unimportant matters. Drifting along, I have observed that we men and women disturb ourselves about trifles, overlooking in the needless excitement the innumerable beauties which wait upon the way. Every ripple is not a wave, every wind is not a hurricane. Why worry whilst we are still upon the stream? It will be time enough to trouble when we meet the sea.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

IRVIN D. YALOM

The Schopenhauer Cure

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I realized that the ultimate joy in life comes from understanding that life is a process, the tapestry of threads bound together, where some fit in and some fall out of place: people come and go, events do not turn out as we would like to, we plan for the best, yet have to set for the worst. If we try to rush life, control it, get angry about it, it will run away from us. If we embrace life, breathe deeply into it and accept it as a wonder, we will be the richest people in the world in a split second.

MILENA MILICEVIC

"How I Overcame My Biggest Mistake in Life so Far", Huffington Post, June 14, 2016


Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

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Work, whiskey, and cards were life.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams

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Human life when rightly lived is simple ... but it is not rightly lived while it is bound to a complexity of lusts, desires, and wants -- these are not the real life but the burning fever and painful disease which originate in an unenlightened condition of mind.

JAMES ALLEN

Byways of Blessedness

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A bubble of air in the blood, a drop of water in the brain, and a man is out of gear, his machine falls to pieces, his thought vanishes, the world disappears from him like a dream at morning. On what a spider thread is hung our individual existence!

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime


Life is a cycle of both suffering and pleasure. One doesn't exist without the other.

VENERABLE POMNYUN

"How Can We Create A Happy Life For Ourselves And A More Just Society?", Huffington Post, August 15, 2016


But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.

BAKER BROWNELL

The New Universe