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Ah life. How should you live it? Why did you receive it? Where is it all going? There are as many questions about life as there are life-forms in the universe! This week I pulled from some fun and diverse sources to find out what others have had to say about life and living.
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Every man dies. Not every man really lives. ~William Wallace
Don’t go through life, grow through life. ~Eric Butterworth
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~William James
An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. ~Charles Darwin
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. ~James Allen
A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. ~Carl Sandburg
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. ~Richard Bach
I love those who yearn for the impossible. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not length of life, but depth of life. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. ~Charlotte Bronte
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ~Albert Schweitzer
Life is a long lesson in humility. ~James M. Barrie
Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~Soren Kierkegaard
Life must be lived as play. ~Plato
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ~Rebecca West
Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive. ~Mel Brooks
My life is my message. ~Mahatma Gandhi
Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
~Jean Anouilh
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
~Soren Kierkegaard
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ~Carl Jung
To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance. ~Buddha
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
~Erma Bombeck
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~Albert Camus
Many Thanks Monty! There are a number that really stand out for me as I read them right now. As a parent this one really rings true “Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. ~Albert Schweitzer”. I love the possibilities in “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~Henry David Thoreau”. And finally I constanly struggle with the idea that “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. ~Soren Kierkegaard”
Thanks Dave…I really like the schwietzer quote as well…
My fav of this list: A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. ~Carl Sandburg
I liked that one too Cathy…short and powerful 🙂