LIFE
LIFE - 1
“You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess. I take the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you today that I have put life and death before you, the blessing and the curse, and you must choose life so that you may live, you and your descendants.” – Moses –Deut. 30:18,19 – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – George Carlin
The opera’s not over till the fat lady sings. – Katherine Hepburn
The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed. – Maya Angelou
We make a living by what we get—we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes again, only sooner. – Tallulah Bankhead
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it, we ought to waste none of them reading valueless books. – John Ruskin
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance, and above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that is the thing, whatever the cost, that must be attained. – Madame Curie
Dream as if you will live forever, live as if you will die today. – James Dean
“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, and our lives.” – Scout (Jean Louise Finch) – near conclusion – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD – Horton Foote
Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin. – Grace Hansen
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all these. – George Washington Carver
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin
If no one ever took risks, Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine Floor. – Neil Simon
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Oops! – Everyone
LIFE - 2
“I am the resurrection and the life. The one who exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life.” – Jesus Christ – John 11:25– Apostle John – HOLY SCRIPTURES
Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. – Andy Rooney
The first forty years of life give us the text—the next thirty give us the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
There are two ways to live out your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle; the other is as if everything is. – Albert Einstein
When you were born you cried, and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. – Cherokee expression
If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. – Johnny Carson
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. – Dolly Parton
“Life leaves all looking a little ridiculous at times, so we might as well relax and enjoy it when the laugh is on us.” – Art Linkletter – OOPS! OR LIFE’S AWFUL MOMENTS
The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear of death. – Voltaire
The dream is not the destination, but the journey. – Diane Sawyer
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – W. M. Lewis
The only failure in life is not knowing how to be happy. – Celine Dion
Motivation – In an experiment bees were taken to outer space. Because of weightlessness, they saw no need to fly. They all DIED! – Paul Harvey
Many of life’s failures belong to people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Edison
Here’s the test to find out if your mission on earth is finished.If you’re alive, it isn’t! – Richard Bach
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it. – Rousseau
It takes a lot of courage to show your dream to someone else. – Erma Bombeck
A person needs just three things in this world to be happy—Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for. – Tom Bodett
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. – Woody Allen
LIFE - 3
“With that I heard a loud voice from the throne say, “Look, the tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his people. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” – Apostle John – Rev. 21:3,4 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
I intend to live forever—so far, so good. – Steven Wright
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. – H. Jackson Browne Jr.
You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts, as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart is a recording chamber, so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. – Betty Pitzer
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Pierre August Renoir
There is no exercise better than reaching down and lifting people up. – John Andrews Holmes
While we have the gift of life, it seems that the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die—whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. – Gilda Radner
You can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future. – Right on
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Life is like a 10-speed bicycle—we have gears we never use. – Charles Schultz
Death is a challenge. It tells you not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. – Leo Buscaglia
Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche
My mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get.” – Tom Hanks as FORREST GUMP – Phil Roth (Screenplay)
The cure for boredom is curiosity—there is no cure for curiosity. – Dorothy Parker
Life is a big canvas. Throw all the paint on it you can. – Danny Kaye
We don’t stop playing because we get old; we get old because we stop playing. – George Bernard Shaw
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain
You don’t choose how you are going to die, or when. But you can decide how you are going to live now. – Joan Baez
LIFE - 4
“For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing at all, , not do they have any more reward, because all memory of them is forgotten.” – King Solomon – Eccl. 9:5 – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it. – Lily Tomlin
“When we see a painting, we accept it as evidence that a painter exists. When we read a book, we accept that an author exists. When we see a house, we accept it that a builder exists. When we see a traffic light, we know that a law-making body exists. All those things were made with a purpose by those who made them. And while we may not understand everything about the people who designed them, we do not doubt that the people exist.” – Personal viewpoint - WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? – 1993
Life is a moderately written good play with a badly written third act. – Truman Capote
No one grows old by living, only by losing interest in living. – Marie Benyon Ray
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Lao Tzu
Life is one long process of getting tired. – Samuel Butler – NOTEBOOKS
“You’re implying that a group of female animals will…breed?” – Dr. Wu (B. D. Wong) Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum): “No. I’m simply saying that life, uh, finds a way.” –JURASSIC PARK – Michael Crichton / David Koepp (Screenplay) – 1993
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? – A good question!
There is positive answer to the grim reality of life. No matter how much the philosophers talk to you, or the, or the psychiatrists, the bottom line is—life has its own agenda. And so we’re all going to wind up in a very bad position one day. Not the same position, but a bad one. – Woody Allen
An unexamined life is not worth living. - Socrates
Is it not strange that trees, which cannot think, live for thousands of years in some cases, whereas intelligent humans live only 70 or 80 years on the average? Is it not a paradox that tortoises, which have no creative or artistic abilities, can live more than 200 years, while humans, richly endowed with these abilities, live much less than half that long? – Gary Pulliam on the question of evolution.
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. – Daniel Auber
The entire structure of orthodox biology still holds that life arose at random. Yet as biochemists discover more and more about the complexities of life, it is apparent that the chances of it originating by accident are so minute that they can be completely ruled out. Life cannot have risen by chance. – Fred Hoyle (astronomer)
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“At this the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die. For God knows that in the very day you eat from it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and bad.”” – Satan (the serpent) – Gen. 3:4,5 – Moses – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Life is the continual process of renewing ourselves. – Unknown
Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out of it alive. – Elbert Hubbard
The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship to fly to the moon, and we can time the flight with the precision of a fraction of a second. These laws must have been set by somebody.” – Werner von Braun
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. – Bertrand Russell
Time is something that cannot be bought. It cannot be wagered with God and it is not in endless supply. Time is simply how you live your life. – Craig Sager
The dream of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh. – Minna Antrim
I think we’re here for each other. – Carol Burnett
In the end, it’s not the years in your life that counts. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. – James Barrie
Life is a matter of salesmanship. – Thomas J. Watson
We never live; we are always in expectation of living. – Voltaire
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in a thousand small uncaring ways. – Stephen Vincent Benet
“They do most of the working and paying and living and dying in this community. Well, is it too much to have them live and pay and live and die in a couple of decent rooms and a bath? Anyway, my father didn’t think so. People were human beings to him, but to you, a warped frustrated old man, they’re cattle. Well, in my book he died a much richer man than you will ever be!” – George Bailey (James Stewart) to Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) – IT’S AWONDERFUL LIFE – Francis Goodrich /Albert Hackett / Frank Capra / (Screenplay) – 1946
Although time and eternity cannot be fully comprehended by man, the promise of everlasting life is still a hope well-founded in the Bible. In it, the term everlasting life occurs nearly 40 times. – Gary Pulliam
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and day we discover why. – William Barclay
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“But pay attention to yourselves that your hearts never become weighed down with overeating and heavy drinking and the anxieties of life, and suddenly that day be instantly upon you.” (Great Advise) – Jesus Christ – Luke 21:34 – Doctor Luke – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
I have this existential map; it has “you are here” written all over it. – Steven Wright
Be who you are and say what you feel because those that don’t mind don’t matter, and those who do matter don’t mind. – Dr. Seuss
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Benard Shaw
Life is, in my estimation, a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only obligation is to make a hole in one with yours. – Fred Allen
If after, all, men cannot make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one. – Albert Camus
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I’d have cherished every moment, realizing that the wonderment growing inside of me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle. – Erma Bombeck
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist fears this is true. – James Branch Cabell
God gave us the gift of life. It is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. – Voltaire
“In this world there’s a whole lot of trouble, / in this world there’s a whole lot of pain, / in this world there’s a whole lot of trouble, / but a whole lot of ground to gain. / Why take what you could be giving, / why watch as the world goes by? / It’s a hard enough life to be living, / why walk when you can fly?” – Mary Chapin Carpenter – WHY WALK WHEN YOU CAN FLY?
Enjoy life – there is plenty of time to be dead. – Anonymous
Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live forever. – Mohandas Gandhi
Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. – W. C. Fields
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than we do: Men, a longer life than dogs do: Dogs, a longer life than love does. – Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin
LIFE - 7
Agnes (Peggy Cass) bewildered: “Live?” Mame (Rosalind Russell), to Agnes and her party descending the stairs: “Yes! Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!” – AUNTIE MAME - Betty Comden / Adolph Green (Screenplay) – 1959
