LIFE 著名经典短语

LIFE

著名经典短语

The difficulty in life is the choice.

George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IV

It's life, Jim... but not as we know it. ----------Spock

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. --------------Unknown

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those

the art of living well. -------------Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.

Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ------------Joe Clark

Life is made up of marble and mud.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. ---------Micron

The secret to life is that there is no secret. -------

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. --------Anonymous

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ----------Woody Allen (1935 - )

In dwelling, live close to the ground.

In thinking, keep to the simple.

In conflict, be fair and generous.

In governing, don't try to control.

In work, do what you enjoy.

In family life, be completely present.

Tao Te Ching

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of

their chosen field of endeavor. ---------------Vincent T. Lombardi

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

Art is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It

cannot be copied; it must be created. -----------Anonymous

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with

sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Communist Manifesto

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether

to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

General Omar Bradley

Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way. ---------Unknown

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the

search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Autobiography

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,

And the greatest good is little enough:

for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things

are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing

nothing. ------------Unknown

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.

G. Weilacher

Life is too important to be taken seriously. --------------Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

Tom Lehrer (1928 - )

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Lewis Grizzard

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they

insist on amassing information. -----------------Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does

to himself. ----------------Chief Seattle

Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.

Tom Hanks, Forrest Gump

Sing Ho! For the life of a Bear!

Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne

Step with care and great tact

And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft

And never mix up your right foot with your left.

Dr. Suess, Oh, the Places You'll Go

Life is short; live it up. --------------Khrushchev

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world

cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance

to love you enough.

Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you

seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it

according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain

purely as a means.

Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)

If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the

little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

Crowfoot

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

Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life

itself.

John Harold

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have

won even before you have started.

Marcus Garvey

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)

Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody

who can tell me what they want.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Fortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a

very effective therapist.

Karen Horney

Life is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.

Foster's Law

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.

Unknown

The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.

Unknown

What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people

and loving things.

Unknown

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the

deepest soils with the farthest stars.

Alan Chadwick

Life has no rehearsals, only performances.

Unknown

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

Unknown

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Richard L. Evans

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James (1842 - 1910)

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)

My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.

The Lockhorns

Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell

these people how much they mean to you.

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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are

because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible

things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I

created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be

yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

Frederick Buechner

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;

Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it

has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,

loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that

counts.

Millard Fuller