Wednesday, December 03, 2008

Random Thoughts


Love starts with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.
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Don't cry over anyone who won't cry over you.
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If love isn't a game, why are there so many players?
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Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.
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You can only go as far as you push.
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Actions speak louder than words.
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The hardest thing to do is watch the one you love, love somebody else.
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Don't let the past hold you back, you're missing the good stuff.
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Life's short. If you don't look around once in a while you might miss it.
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A best friend is like a four leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have.
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Some people make the world special just by being in it.
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Best friends are the siblings God forgot to give.
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When it hurts to look back, and you're scared to look ahead, you can look beside you and your best friend will be there.
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True friendship never ends.
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Friends are forever.
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Good friends are like stars....You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.
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Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile.
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What do you do when the only person who can make you stop crying is the person who made you cry?
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Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
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Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
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~Author Unknown~

166 comments:

crabby old man said...

Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.
It changes fast after the honeymoon. that's what my bride told me

Anonymous said...

acts 4-20
For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

Anonymous said...

the moon belongs to everyone
the best things in life they're free

stars belong to everyone
they cling there for you and for me

flowers in spring
the robins that sings
the sunbeams that shine
they're yours and their mine


way out west
love can come to everyone
best things in life they're free

moon belongs to everyone
the best things in life they're free
stars belong to everyone
they glitter there for you and for me
they are yours and me

flowers in spring
the robins that sing
sunbeams that shine
they're yours and their mine

love can come to everyone
best things in life they're free
all of the good things
every one of the better things

the best, best things in life
they're free

Anonymous said...

A. Powell Davies:
Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Anonymous said...

Abraham Lincoln:
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Anonymous said...

Adrienne Rich:
Life on the planet is born of woman.

Anonymous said...

Alan Bennett:
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

Anonymous said...

Albert Camus:
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.

Anonymous said...

Albert Einstein:
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Anonymous said...

Albert Schweitzer:
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward [people], but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

Anonymous said...

Albert Schweitzer:
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.

Anonymous said...

Albert Schweitzer:
Reverence for Life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life and that to destroy, harm, or to hinder life is evil. Affirmation of the world -- that is affirmation of the will to live, which appears in phenomenal forms all around me -- is only possible for me in that I give myself out for other life

Anonymous said...

Alice Walker:
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for

Anonymous said...

Alice Walker:
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.

Anonymous said...

Amelia Burr:
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

Anonymous said...

Anais Nin:
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anonymous said...

Anais Nin:
People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anonymous said...

Anais Nin:
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anonymous said...

Anais Nin:
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anonymous said...

André Gide:
The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions.

Anonymous said...

Anne Wilson Schaef:
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

Anonymous said...

Annie Dillard:
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Anonymous said...

Barbara Kingsolver:
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Anonymous said...

Barry Lopez:
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Anonymous said...

Baruch Spinoza:
What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Anonymous said...

Ben Jonson:
A good life is a main argument.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Bertrand Russell:
Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

Anonymous said...

Bertrand Russell:
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge

Anonymous said...

Brother David Steindl-Rast :
Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.

Anonymous said...

Buckminster Fuller:
Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it

Anonymous said...

Buddha:
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.

Anonymous said...

Captain Jean-Luc Picard:
Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived.

Anonymous said...

Carl Jung:
There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Anonymous said...

Carl Sandburg:
Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

Anonymous said...

Carl Sandburg:
Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep

Anonymous said...

Charlotte Bronte:
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Anonymous said...

Charlotte Bronte:
Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Anonymous said...

Chinese proverb:
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other

Anonymous said...

Colette:
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Anonymous said...

Colette:
Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.

Anonymous said...

Corita Kent:
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

Anonymous said...

Corita Kent:
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Anonymous said...

Dorothy Thompson:
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

Dorothy Thompson:
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Anonymous said...

E. B. White:
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.


Charlotte, "Charlotte's Web"

Anonymous said...

Edith Wharton:
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

Anonymous said...

Edna St. Vincent Millay:
My candle burns at both its ends;
It will not last the night;
But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends --
It gives a lovely light.

Anonymous said...

Edna St. Vincent Millay:
Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

Anonymous said...

Elbert Hubbard:
Life is just one damned thing after another.

Anonymous said...

Elbert Hubbard:
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Anonymous said...

Eleanor Roosevelt:
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Anonymous said...

Eleanor Roosevelt:
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Anonymous said...

Eleanor Roosevelt:
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Anonymous said...

Elie Wiesel:
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Anonymous said...

Elizabeth Drew:
The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Anonymous said...

Emily Dickinson:
Love—is anterior to Life—
Posterior—to Death—
Initial of Creation, and
The Exponent of Earth

Anonymous said...

Emily Dickinson:
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Anonymous said...

Emily Dickinson:
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

Anonymous said...

Emily Dickinson:
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Anonymous said...

Erik H. Erikson:
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

Anonymous said...

Ernest Becker:
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Anonymous said...

Ernest Becker:
[W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.

Anonymous said...

Ernest Becker:
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false. Whatever is achieved must be achieved with the full exercise of passion, of vision, of pain, of fear, and of sorrow. How do we know ... that our part of the meaning of the universe might not be a rhythm in sorrow?

Anonymous said...

Ernest Dowson:
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses;
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.

Anonymous said...

Franklin P. Jones:
Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Anonymous said...

Frederick Buechner:
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Anonymous said...

Friedrich Nietzsche:
And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Anonymous said...

George Bernard Shaw:
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Anonymous said...

George Eliot:
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other

Anonymous said...

George Sand:
Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Anonymous said...

George Santayana:
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Anonymous said...

George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Anonymous said...

Germaine Greer:
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.

Anonymous said...

Goethe:
A useless life is an early death.

Anonymous said...

HH the Dalai Lama:
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Anonymous said...

Harry Emerson Fosdick:
Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Anonymous said...

Helen Keller:
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Anonymous said...

Henri Frederick Amiel:
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Anonymous said...

Henry David Thoreau:
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Anonymous said...

Henry James:
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Anonymous said...

Henry Van Dyke:
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Anonymous said...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Anonymous said...

Immanuel Kant:
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Anonymous said...

Isaac Asimov:
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Anonymous said...

Isadora Duncan:
People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life.

Anonymous said...

James F. Bymes:
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

Anonymous said...

Jean-Paul Sartre:
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Anonymous said...

Joan Baez:
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Anonymous said...

John Dewey:
Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Anonymous said...

John Dewey:
Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Anonymous said...

John Lennon:
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

Anonymous said...

Katharine Hepburn:
Without discipline, there's no life at all.

Anonymous said...

Leo Buscaglia:
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Anonymous said...

Lord Byron:
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Anonymous said...

Madame de Stael:
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Anonymous said...

Marcus Aurelius:
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Anonymous said...

Marcus Aurelius:
Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.

Anonymous said...

Marcus Aurelius:
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last

Anonymous said...

Margaret Fuller:
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Anonymous said...

Maria Mitchell:
Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

Marian Wright Edelman:
Service is what life is all about.

Anonymous said...

Marie Curie:
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Anonymous said...

Mark Twain:
What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. Who was it who said, "Blessed is the man who has found his work"? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work--not somebody else's work. The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man's work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world. The fellows who groan and sweat under the weary load of toil that they bear never can hope to do anything great. How can they when their souls are in a ferment of revolt against the employment of their hands and brains? The product of slavery, intellectual or physical, can never be great.

Anonymous said...

Mark Twain:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Anonymous said...

Mark Twain:
There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.

Anonymous said...

Mark Twain:
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Anonymous said...

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

Anonymous said...

Martin Luther King, Jr.:
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Anonymous said...

Mary Oliver:
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Anonymous said...

Mary Oliver:
To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Blackwater Woods

Anonymous said...

Matthew Arnold:
Is it so small a thing
To have enjoy'd the sun,
To have lived light in the spring,
To have loved, to have thought, to have done...

Anonymous said...

May Sarton:
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.

Anonymous said...

Mohandas K. Gandhi:
Where there is love there is life

Anonymous said...

Mortimer Adler:
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life

Anonymous said...

Nadine Stair :

If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax; I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I'm one of those people who lived sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after the other, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had it to do over again, I would travel lighter than I have.

If I had my life to live over again, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dance; I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies.

Anonymous said...

Norbert Capek:
It is worthwhile to live
and fight courageously
for sacred ideals.

Anonymous said...

Norman MacEwan:
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Anonymous said...

Norman Vincent Peale:
Live your life and forget your age.

Anonymous said...

Oliver Wendell Holmes:
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Anonymous said...

Oliver Wendell Holmes:
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

Anonymous said...

Oliver Wendell Holmes:
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Anonymous said...

Omar N. Bradley:
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Anonymous said...

Oscar Wilde:
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Anonymous said...

Paul Anka:
And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain,
My friends, I'll say it clear,
I'll state my case of which I'm certain.
I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway
And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Anonymous said...

Paul Beattie:
When My Mind is Still

When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I remember things too easily forgotten:
The purity of early love,
The maturity of unselfish love that asks --
desires -- nothing but another's good,
The idealism that has persisted through all the tempest of life.

When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I can find a quiet assurance, an inner peace, in the core of my being.
It can face the doubt, the loneliness, the anxiety,
Can accept these harsh realities and can even grow
Because of these challenges to my essential being.

When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I can sense my basic humanity,
And then I know that all men and women are my brothers and sisters.
Nothing but my own fear and distrust can separate me from the love of friends.
If I can trust others, accept them, enjoy them,
Then my life shall surely be richer and more full.
If I can accept others, this will help them to be more truly themselves,
And they will be more able to accept me.

When my mind is still and alone with the beating of my heart,
I know how much life has given me:
The history of the race, friends and family,
The opportunity to work, the chance to build myself.
Then wells within me the urge to live more abundantly,
With greater trust and joy,
With more profound seriousness and earnest service,
And yet more calmly at the heart of life

Anonymous said...

Paul Bowles:
... we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless

Anonymous said...

Pearl S. Buck:
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it

Anonymous said...

Pearl S. Buck:
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Ellison:
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Life is a progress, and not a station.

Anonymous said...

Ralph Waldo Emerson.:
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

Anonymous said...

Ray Bradbury:
Life is "trying things to see if they work."

Anonymous said...

Raymond Charles Barker:
The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.

Anonymous said...

Robert Byrne:
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Anonymous said...

Robert Frost:
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Anonymous said...

Robert Louis Stevenson:
The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.

Anonymous said...

Roy H. Williams:
Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Anonymous said...

Sarah Ban Breathnach:
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

Anonymous said...

Sarah Bernhardt:
Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Anonymous said...

Sean O'Casey:
I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Anonymous said...

Seneca:
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Anonymous said...

Sophia Lyon Fahs:
Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Anonymous said...

Stephen Covey:
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

Anonymous said...

Theodore Rubin:
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Anonymous said...

Thich Nhat Hanh:
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Anonymous said...

Thomas F. Healey:
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.

When Death claims the light of my brow,

No flowers of life will cheer me: instead

You may give me my roses now!

Anonymous said...

Thomas Jefferson:
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Anonymous said...

Tom Lehrer:
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Anonymous said...

Toni Morrison:
Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Anonymous said...

Victor Frankl:
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

Anonymous said...

Victor Frankl:
We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering

Anonymous said...

Victor Hugo:
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Anonymous said...

Wallace Stegner:
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Anonymous said...

Will Rogers:
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save

Anonymous said...

William Blake:
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Anonymous said...

Winston Churchill:
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Anonymous said...

Zeno:
The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Anonymous said...

Albert Einstein:
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Anonymous said...

Ambrose Bierce:
Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.

MarmiteToasty said...

Cripes, where is that annoymouse come from lol

I logged on and thought 164 comments....

Why is love so difficult at times.... why so painful.... why so harsh....

life aye, its what we sign up for..

much love

x

Jackie said...

Mel....Mr. Anonymous is my son-in-law!! When one of my posts "strikes" a chord...he gets into action. I nearly fainted myself when I brought in my e-mail this morning and had over 170 comments!! But we have a good time with my blog. I'm glad that ONE member of my family enjoys getting involved. He's a honey!!

Yes..love *can* be painful. But it sure would be a dark world without it.

and....love to you, sweet girl!!