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Life is like a sewer...
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
- Tom Lehrer
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another
and I know there are people in the world
that do not love their fellow human beings
and I HATE people like that.
- Tom Lehrer
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
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Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife.
Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life.
But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways,
We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days.
Hearts full of youth,
Hearts full of truth,
Six parts gin to one part vermouth.
- Tom Lehrer - song: Bright College Days,
album: An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer
Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.
- Tom Lehrer
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't have the power to make life "fair,"
but you do have the power to make life joyful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The life of inner peace,
being harmonious and without stress,
is the easiest type of existence.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
Life is really simple,
but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...
It's about learning to Dance in the Rain.
- Vivian Greene
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
No man stands so tall as when he stoops to help a child.
- Anonymous (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Anger is like a thorn in the heart.
- Yiddish Proverb
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly,
"one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
- Hans Christian Andersen
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else;
you are the one who gets burned.
- The Buddha
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
Gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
- Anonymous
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have found that if you love life,
life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
Life is a song - sing it.
Life is a game - play it.
Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba
Don't Criticize, Condemn, Or Complain.
- Dale Carnegie
Life is best when I wish neither to hurry the future nor to slow it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Set Life's Rhythm with Your Heart-Drum
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose your Habits, Choose your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
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