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If life is a bowl of cherries, then what am I doing in the pits?
- Erma Bombeck
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Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend will tell you she saw your old boyfriend -
and he's a priest.
- Erma Bombeck
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
- Erma Bombeck
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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Life is all a game anyway, so just change the rules.
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Life is all in our Perspective.
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Recognize that "suffering is optional," and develop daily habits
that support living a joyful and productive life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
The goal of life is
to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe,
to match your nature with Nature.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Until you make the unconscious conscious,
it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
- Carl Jung
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is serious? Why?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Is today a day to gather strength from the storm -
a day to to learn life lessons for the next battle?
Or is today a day to sit by the fire
and watch the storm rage outside?
Either way, the storm is just life.
Give thanks for all of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
- Burton Hills
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes
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