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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
another version ends with what lies within us
-Anon.
variously attributed to Thoreau, Emerson, and Holmes
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My grandpa notes the world's worn cogs
And says we're going to the dogs.
His grandpa in his house of logs
Said things were going to the dogs.
His grandpa in the Flemish bogs
Said things were going to the dogs.
His grandpa in his hairy togs
Said things were going to the dogs.
But this is what I wish to state.
The dogs have had an awful wait.
-Anon.
The Hymn of the Pessimist
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Life is a bed of water filling from many springs and we seem not to know when one gushing flow will oe'r flood the banks only to be succeeded by a drought.
letter to Edgar Cayce
-Anon., December 21, 1925
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WHAT IS LIFE?
Life is an Adventure ... Dare it
Life is a Beauty ... Praise it
Life is a Challenge ... Meet it
Life is a Duty ... Perform it
Life is a Love ... Enjoy it
Life is a Tragedy ... Face it
Life is a Struggle ... Fight it
Life is a Promise ... Fulfill it
Life is a Game ... Play it
Life is a Gift ... Accept it
Life is a Journey ... Complete it
Life is a Mystery ... Unfold it
Life is a Goal ... Achieve it
Life is an Opportunity ... Take it
Life is a Puzzle ... Solve it
Life is a Song ... Sing it
Life is a Sorrow ... Overcome it
Life is a Spirit ... Realize it
-Anon.
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Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
-Anon.
various versions of this exist; one version is attributed: Bill McKenna, professional motorcycle racer, Cycle magazine Feb. 1982
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May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!
-Scottish Proverb
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Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours.
-Swedish Proverb
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Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
-Anon.
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Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
-Anon.
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
-Anon.
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He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.
-Proverb
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A light heart lives long.
-Proverb
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Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.
-Proverb
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Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.
-Proverb
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Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.
-Proverb
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In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.
-Proverb
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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
-Proverb
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There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.
-Proverb
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To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.
-Peter Henry Abrahams
The View From Coyaba, 1985
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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
-Diane Ackerman, "quoted in Newsweek", September 22, 1986
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Life...is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy , and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
-Douglas Adams
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Come on, insisted Zaphod, I've found a way in.
In? said Arthur in horror.
Into the interior of the planet! An underground passage. The force of the whale's impact cracked it open, and that's where we have to go. Where no man has trod these five million years, into the very depths of time itself ...
Marvin started his ironical humming again.
Zaphod hit him and he shut up.
With little shudders of disgust they all followed Zaphod down the incline into the crater, trying very hard not to look at its unfortunate creator.
Life, said Marvin dolefully, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it.
-Douglas Adams
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (ch. 20)
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Life is wasted on the living.
-Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.
-Joseph Addison
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The less routine the more life.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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Books about Life
