Piognant Quotations

Living Quotations

Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

My old man taught me two things: "Mind own business" and "Always cut cards."

The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

The best of life is the exercise of ingenuity--in design, in finance, in flying, in business.

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

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets, then can come the best of benedictions: "If I had my life to live over, I'd do it all the same.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The life of the individual only has meaning insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value to which all other values are subordinate.

Life is eternal. You are immortal. You never do die. You simply change form.

Every day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

That life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill?

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.

To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Life ís piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to 14 days.

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson.

All I can say is what I've always said: If you break your leg, stop thinking about dancing and start decorating the cast.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly most perfectly alive.

We can all learn to live jubilantly. We can all learn to alter our attitudes so that we can better realize our dreams.

Life gives us what we need when we need it. Receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

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