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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.  ~Garrison Keillor

The meaning of life is not an unquestionable answer; it is an unanswerable question.  ~The Quote Garden


Life is simple, its just not easy.  ~Author Unknown

Just living is not enough.  One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  ~Hans Christian Anderson

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are good is like expecting the bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.  ~Dennis Wholey
 
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.  ~Robert Byrne

A life without cause is a life without effect.  ~Barbarella

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.  ~Jack Handey

Life is half spent before we know what it is.  ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.  ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Life is a series of collisions with the future.  ~José Ortega y Gasset

Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of.  ~Agnes' Law

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner:  that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.  ~Timothy Fuller

A great part of life consists in contemplating what we cannot cure.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.  ~José Ortega y Gasset

If A equals success, then the formula is:  A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut.  ~Albert Einstein

Life is the sum of all your choices.  ~Albert Camus

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life.  Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.  ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.  ~Mark Twain

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.  ~Kathleen Norris

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.  ~Samuel Butler

Life seems nothing more than a quick succession of busy nothings." ~From the movie Mansfield Park

Life is a long lesson in humility.  ~James M. Barrie

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.  ~Henry Van Dyke

Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.  ~James Gibbons Huneker

We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning.  ~Stacy

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.  ~Joseph Campbell

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.  ~Confucius

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.  ~Huey Newton

Sometimes questions are more important than answers.  ~Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.  ~Martin H. Fischer

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.  ~Henry Miller

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.  ~Charlie Brown

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain.  ~Thomas Jefferson

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.  It goes on.  ~Robert Frost

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?  ~George Bernard Shaw

God asks no man whether he will accept life.  That is not the choice.  You must take it.  The only question is how.  ~Henry Ward Beecher

He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for.  ~Moroccan Proverb

I say to my child, I will explain to you as much of life as I can, but you must remember that there is a part of life for which you are the explanation.  ~Robert Brault

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.  ~Thomas Carlyle

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.  ~Angelina Jolie

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.  ~Albert Camus

Human life is purely a matter of deciding what's important to you.  ~Anonymous

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.  ~Diego Marchi

I know what things are good:  friendship and work and conversation.  These I shall have.  ~Rupert Brooke

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first.  ~Mark Twain

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.  ~Jim Carrey

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.  ~Author Unknown

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.  ~Danny Kaye

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