C'est la Vie ...
“There is nothing more deceptive than obvious fact.” –Arthur Conan Doyle
“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.”
--Arthur Conan Doyle“The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
-- William James"The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred..."
- Soichiro Honda"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-- Jean-Paul Sartre"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."
- Ashleigh Brilliant"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Mahatma Gandhi"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
-- George Bernard Shaw“To everything there is a season.”
--Eccl. 3“Amid the hope and worry, the fear and anger, believe that each day which breaks is your last: the un-hoped for hour will be a welcome surprise.”
--Horace “Epistles” (bk. I, epistle IV, ln. 12-14)“Hoc unum certum est nihil esse certi.”
(trans. “The only certain thing is that nothing is certain.”)
--Nausiphanes“We are but a moment in life, fading in the grass.”
--The Youngbloods“If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.”
--Maria Edgeworth“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
---Anne Frank“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.”
--Madalen Nabb“We live as we dream—alone.”
--Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness“Joy always depends on pain. Pain is a part of joy.”
--Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
–Helen Keller“There are two ways to live life: one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other as if everything is a miracle.”
–Einstein“The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.”
–Emile Zola“As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.”
–Jules Renard“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and write another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”
–J. M. Barrie“Life can only be understood backwards. It must be lived forwards.”
–Kierkegaard"We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell."
–Clarence Darrow“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have enough of it."
–Justice O.W. Holmes, Jr."What we the living require most of all is each other…It is not explained why there is for all of us but one life, but it is plain that all life is one."
–Donald Culross Peattie“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."
–John Lennon“Perhaps I’m old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say ‘Hang the sense of it’ and keep yourself occupied.”
–Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy“This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.”
--Horace“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.”
–H.T. Leslie“Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.”
--Annie Besant"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."
--Isak Dinesen