Life and Living Quotes Throughout Time - Part 1

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load. Queen Elizabeth II

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. Maya Angelou

The human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live. Ethel Percy Andru

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life. Barbara Bush

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them. Abraham (Abraham-Hicks)

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling. Claude D. Pepper

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.  Robert Thibodeau

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. Yogi Mahesh Maharishi

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. Cathy Better

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. Oscar Wilde

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives. Unknown

The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle

Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim. Lord Byron

Today is life - the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. Dale Carnegie

I'm not the healthiest, but I am healthy. I'm healthy to the point where there are things that I have to eat that I don't want to eat, but I eat it because I'm enjoying staying alive. Bill Cosby

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. Terry McMillan

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. Grandma Moses

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships. Stephen Covey

Art and life are subjective. Not everybody's gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it. Whoopi Goldberg

"One day I'll take a step of faith. One day I'll be more disciplined. One day I'll get my life straightened out. One day I'll go back to school." No, don't live waiting for one day. Start doing what you know to do today. Friends, life is short. Time is flying by. Joel Osteen

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. Philip Larkin

Life is something you do when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz

I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense. Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. Lou Erickson

Do not let others set the standards about how much money you should have— or about what you should do with it— for you are the only one who could ever accurately define that. Come into alignment with who-you-really-are, and allow the things that life has helped you to know that you want to flow into your experience. Abraham (of Abraham-Hicks)

You can most certainly help others through your thoughts, and they can help you. Every good thought you send to another is a living force. However, the person you are sending the thought to has to be asking for the same thing you are sending. If the person does not want it, then they are not in harmony with your thought frequency, and it will not penetrate them. You cannot create in another's life against their will, but if it is something they want, your thoughts are a real force that helps them. Rhonda Byrne