Life
"I used to always think that I'd look back on us crying and laugh, but I never thought I'd look back on us laughing and cry."
- Unknown
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."
- James Dean
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
- Helen Keller
"Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it."
- Sai Baba
"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
- Thoreau
"Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough."
-Garrison Keillor
"We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
- Nietzsche
"Every man dies, not every man really lives".
Message in Braveheart's Advertising Poster
"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
-William Osler
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
- Charlotte Bronte
"Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns."
- Charles Feidelson, Jr.
"Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
- Stephen Vincent Benét
"Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive."
- Elbert Hubbard
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
- Jean de La Bruyère
"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."
James Matthew Barrie
"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve."
- Napoleon Hill
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Norman MacEwan
''If a man hasn't found anything he will die for he isn't fit to live''
- Unknown
"Do Not Go Quietly Into The Night, Rage, Rage, Rage, Against The Dying Of The Light"
- Dylan Thomas
"Education is not preparation for life, education is life itself."
- John Dewey
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
- Eugene Ionesco
"Being challenged in life is enevitable, being defeated is optional"
- Roger Crawford
"Life is like a grindstone - whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you're made of."
- Unknown
"That which doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
- Fredrich Nietzche
"Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many people call you and it's not about who you've dated, are dating, or haven't dated at all. It isn't about who you've kissed, what sport you play, or which guy or girl likes you. It's not about your shoes or your hair or the color of your skin or where you live or go to school. In fact, it's not about grades, money, clothes, or colleges that accept you or not. Life isn't about if you have lots of friends, or if you are alone, and it's not about how accepted or unaccepted you are. Life just isn't about that. But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about how you feel about yourself. It's about trust, happiness, and compassion. It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love. Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence. It's about what you say and what you mean. It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have. Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise. These choices are what life's about."
- Nike ad
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
- Cherokee prayer
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained."
- Marie Curie
"Live life so completely that when death comes to you like a thief in the night, there will be nothing left for him to steal."
- Unknown
"My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road."
- Beatrice Wood
"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."
-Lyndon B. Johnson
A philosophy professor has started his lecture by filling up a glass jar with stones, 5cm in diameter. He asked the students if the jar was full. Yes, was the answer.
Then he took a box of gravel (small stones) and started to fill it in the jar. After the gravel has filled the space between the large stones, they established that the jar was full again. Then the professor took a box of sand, and poured the sand in the jar. Certainly the sand has filled all the remaining space.
"And now" - said the professor "notice, that this is Your life". The stones are the important things, your family, your partner, your health, your children. If you lost everything else, your life would still remain complete. The gravel are the things, which do yet count, like your job, your house, your car. The sand is the rest, the things of little importance. If you pour the sand first in the jar, no space remains for the stones. The same thing happens to your life. If you waste your time and energies on unimportant things, there will not be enough place for the things, which really are important. Pay attention to the things, which are principally necessary for your happiness. Play with your children, go to the doctor regularly to check your state of health, go and dance with your wife. You will always have time to work, clean up, invite guests. Pay attention on the stones first, they are the things which really matter. Set up the priorities. The rest is just sand".
-anonymous
