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Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer 
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous
Life is partly what we make it,
and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tehyi Hsieh
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
- Anais Nin
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life - for most people - is their past projected large
onto the movie screen of their future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others,
but it also becomes richer and happier.
- Albert Schweitzer
Gift the love of your life with undistracted,
untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook
No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather
Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Live Well, Love Much, Laugh Often.
- Anonymous
A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)
There is only one happiness in life: to love and to be loved.
- George Sand
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
Satisfaction of one's curiosity
is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
- Linus Pauling
A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
- Frank Herbert
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Fear is the root of the tree of suffering.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses;
Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.
- Carl Jung
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung
The greatest and most important problems of life
are all fundamentally insoluble.
They can never be solved but only outgrown.
- Carl Jung
Choose your life's mate carefully.
From this one decision will come
90 percent of all your happiness or misery.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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 is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous
The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
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
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
- Khalil Gibran
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Each man's life touches so many other lives.
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946 movie)
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
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
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
Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Life doesn't step on your toes when you Dance Lightly.
- 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
What is called genius is the
abundance of life and health.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin
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 balance between rest and movement.
- Osho
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
It is easier to put on slippers
than to carpet the entire world
- Al Franken
Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Life is NOT a constant emergency.
- 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
Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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