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Life is like an onion:
you peel it off one layer at a time,
and sometimes you weep.
- Carl Sandburg
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Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler
Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life will not meet your expectations -
choose joy anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others
will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
When one fully lives a life of acceptance,
life's vagaries are not merely tolerated,
but are received as a gift.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a game.
Keep it light and playful.
Tease life, taunt life,
never attack life head-on.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meeting of two personalities is
like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
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
Life's a game, all you have to do is know how to play it.
- Anonymous
Life is a gift, and I try to respond with grace and courtesy.
- Maya Angelou
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Life is serious? Why?
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Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
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Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
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Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu
We never see Life as it really is.
All we can ever see is the reflection of Life -
distorted by our unique perceptions.
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There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- 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
Go forth, and play joyfully in the garden of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is all in our Perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
Life is lived in the waiting.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon
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
It is easy enough to be pleasant
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
- Zhuangzi
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
Life is ten percent what happens to you
and ninety percent how you respond to it.
- Lou Holtz
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life
as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein
Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
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.
- Anais Nin
Life is a grand adventure - enjoy the ride.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I love the rain - it washes memories
off the sidewalk of life.
- the movie Play It Again, Sam
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