about life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso
 Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. -- Thomas L. Holdcroft
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- Gandhiji Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. -- Ann Landers Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.-- Buddha  Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddling.-- Claude Pepper It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo  Emerson

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. -- Bill Baughan
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.-- Alfred D. Souza In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal. -- Nisami Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -- Buddha

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.-- Shari R. Barr
 All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler
 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings
 A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. -- Albert Schweitzer

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -- Anonymous Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye  And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.-- Abraham Lincoln  Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...-- Isak Dinesen

 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. -- Albert Einstein
 Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier
 Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.-- Eliot Wiggington
 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda
 On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him. -- Buddha
 In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. -- Sid Caesar
 Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways. -- Anonymous