[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand…. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. – Phillips Brooks
My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life. – William Lyon Phelps
The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece. – Vladimir Nabokov
The swing on your porch is a better liver of life than the chair in front of your computer. – Terri Guillemets
You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
One day can make your life. One day can ruin your life. All life is is four or five big days that change everything. – Riding in Cars with Boys, Beverly Donofrio (book), Morgan Ward (screenplay)
Life is a collection of moments you would have appreciated more if you had only known they were moments. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret. – Confucius
To drink the sunshine and to dream at night…. – Author Unknown, “The Fall of Man”
I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself. РFran̤ois Truffaut
We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning. – Stacy
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and there is a 100% mortality rate. – R.D. Laing
[L]ife is a journey and not a destination… the heart must be set upon those matters of character which are eternal and not upon those matters of sensation which pass away. – Lynn H. Hough
Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. – James Gibbons Huneker
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. – Ogden Nash
I do like a little bit of butter to my bread. – A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young
