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1. "I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."

Lauren Bacall

2. "A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake."

G. I. Gurdjieff

Quotations about: Human

3. "Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness."

Henrik Ibsen, "The Wild Duck"

Quotations about: Happiness

4. "See in what peace a Christian can die."

Joseph Addison, (last words)

Quotations about: God and Religion

5. "I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence."

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Quotations about: Human

6. "Authority forgets a dying king."

Alfred Tennyson, "Idylls of the King"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

7. "For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen, "Pride and Prejudice"

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

8. "Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

Ingmar Bergman

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Time and Passing

9. "Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will."

Jawaharial Nehru

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

10. "The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself."

John Fowles

Quotations about: Question and Problem

11. "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

William James

12. "The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it."

James M. Barrie, "The Little Minister"

13. "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."

Carl Sandburg

Quotations about: Time and Passing

14. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anais Nin, "The Diary of Anais Nin"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

15. "Life is so constructed that we move through different phases and stages, each requiring the skills and wisdom of the previous ones."

Anne Wilson Schaef

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Education

16. "That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another..."

Charles Monroe Schulz, "Charlie Brown"

Quotations about: Pain and Tears

17. "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to live and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."

Henry Van Dyke

Quotations about: Joy and Sadness

18. "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

Sophia Loren

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

19. "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Quotations about: Trust

20. "The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives."

Louise Hay

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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21. "To express the emotions of life is to live. To express the life of emotions is to make art."

Jane Heap

Quotations about: Art and Culture

22. "Enjoy yourself. It's later than you think."

Chinese proverb

Quotations about: Time and Passing

23. "Poverty is death in another form."

Latin proverb

Quotations about: Richness and Money

24. "Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Quotations about: Wit and Humor

25. "Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering."

Francois Rabelais

Quotations about: Health and Alcohol -:- Pain and Tears

26. "Life may have no meaning -- or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."

Ashleigh Brilliant

27. "Poetry is life distilled."

Gwendolyn Brooks

Quotations about: Art and Culture

28. "Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: God and Religion

29. "Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation."

Leo Buscaglia

Quotations about: Love

30. "I never speak ill of dead people or live judges."

Edwin W. Edwards

Quotations about: Law and Crime

31. "The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred."

Soichiro Honda

32. "Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."

Friedrich von Schiller, "Cassandra"

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

33. "What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner."

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette

Quotations about: Time and Passing

34. "Life is a horizontal fall."

Jean Cocteau, "Opium"

35. "Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive."

Brian Clough

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

36. "Life is Nothingness's search for Something."

Christian Morgenstern

37. "How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?"

Logan Pearsall Smith

Quotations about: Success and Fame

38. "Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."

Epicurus

39. "One does not learn how to die by killing others."

François-René de Chateaubriand

Quotations about: Law and Crime

40. "The hardest thing in life is to learn which bridge to cross and which to burn."

Laurence J. Peter

41. "In life you need either inspiration or desperation."

Anthony Robbins

42. "He is dead... because we have forgotten him."

Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game"

Quotations about: Memory

43. "Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away [...] A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."

Plato, "Phaedo"

Quotations about: Human

44. "It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die."

Steve Biko

Quotations about: Various

45. "Is there life before death? - that is the question!"

Anthony de Mello

46. "Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die."

Anthony de Mello

47. "The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality."

James A. Michener

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires -:- Reality and Imagination

48. "To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."

Marlon Brando

Quotations about: Art and Culture

49. "In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."

Herodotus

Quotations about: Peace and War

50. "The whole of life lies in the verb seeing."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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