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Quotations from the Wayside
Who knows if life is a destination? Life is a journey.
ANONYMOUS
Some people say life is hard. Compared to what?
ANONYMOUS
The business of living is inspired by an effort to see things whole and steadily.
CHARLES A. BEARD
Life is so great a mystery that we need not invent others.
JOHN BURROUGHS
Be careful how you live your life for it is the only Gospel others will read.
HELDER CAMARA
Life is one long quarrel with God. But we can make up at the end.
THOMAS CARLISLE
Sometimes the thing our life misses helps more than the thing which it gets.
ALICE CARY
Life is not a vessel to be drained, but a cup to be filled.
CHINESE PROVERB
The law of life is development, not destruction.
JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE
The tragedy of life is not death, but what dies inside us while we live.
NORMAN COUSINS
Nothing in life is to be feared—it is only to be
understood.
MARIE CURIE
The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
HAVELOCK ELLIS
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
EPICTETUS
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
MOHANDAS K. GANDHI
Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
To live is to adapt.
GOETHE
Our responsibility is not for life but for living.
ELIZABETH GOUDGE
Life is a school, not a bargain counter.
GRENFELL
Living is what man does with God’s time.
ABRAHAM HESCHEL
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it.
WILLIAM JAMES
The test of a man’s worth is not his theology but his life.
MORRIS JOSEPH
Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
THOMAS LAMANCE
We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
MENANDER
What matters is not when we die but how we live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Nothing in life has value except to do right and to fear not.
GILBERT MURRAY
Although life is all too short it can be ever so wide.
DAVID NARDI
Life is creation continuing.
NANCY NEWHALL
Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
EMIL NOLDE
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
BORIS PASTERNAK
Live simply that others may simply live.
QUAKER PRECEPT
Life is not a dogma to be defended but a reality to be explored.
FLOYD ROSS
There is no wealth but life itself.
JOHN RUSKIN
May you live all the days of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT
Give back life for life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
When it’s time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Trouble is the necessary salt of life without which life loses its savor.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
The best way to know life is to love many things.
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Living, like studying, needs a little practice.
OCTAVIA WALDO
A rose to the living is more than sumptuous wreaths to the dead.
NIXON WATERMAN
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