Life is wasted on the living.
- Douglas Adams
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The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
- Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- Josh Billings
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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
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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
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
- Buddha
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
- John Burroughs
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The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
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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
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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
- Anton Chekhov
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You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.
- Quentin Crisp
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
- e. e. cummings
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
- Emily Dickinson
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Only a few things are really important.
- Marie Dressler
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Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
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But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco
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If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- Henry Havelock Ellis
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
- Erich Fromm
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost
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Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
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My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
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Life is half spent before we know what it is.
- George Herbert
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Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
- Karen Horney
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Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
- Karen Horney
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
- Karen Horney
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The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.
- Karen Horney
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
- Karen Horney
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
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This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
- William James
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
- Garrison Keillor
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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.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
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Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
- David Lodge
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I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
- H. L. Mencken
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Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
- Warren Miller
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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People living deeply have no fear of death.
- Anais Nin
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The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
- William Lyon Phelps
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There is no wealth but life.
- John Ruskin
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Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
- Charles Schulz
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw
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Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
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There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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May you live every day of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Henry David Thoreau
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
- E. B. White
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