LIFE 著名经典短语

LIFE 著名经典短语The difficulty in life is the choice.George Moore, The Bending of the Bough, [1900], act IVIt's life, Jim... but not as we know it. ----------SpockBetween the wish and the thing life lies waiting. --------------UnknownThose who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well. -------------Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ------------Joe ClarkLife is made up of marble and mud.Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804 - 1864)Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life. ---------MicronThe secret to life is that there is no secret. -------"Swampman" on QuartzThe best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others. --------AnonymousSeventy percent of success in life is showing up. ----------Woody Allen (1935 - )In dwelling, live close to the ground.In thinking, keep to the simple.In conflict, be fair and generous.In governing, don't try to control.In work, do what you enjoy.In family life, be completely present.Tao Te ChingThe quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ---------------Vincent T. LombardiThese are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.Gilbert HighetArt is a deliberate recreation of a new and special reality that grows from your response to life. It cannot be copied; it must be created. -----------AnonymousAll that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.Communist ManifestoThis is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.General Omar BradleyLife's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way. ---------UnknownThree passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), AutobiographyWhat is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story,And the greatest good is little enough:for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Life is a DreamIn real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. ------------UnknownThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.G. WeilacherLife is too important to be taken seriously. --------------Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)Life is like a sewer... what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.Tom Lehrer (1928 - )Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.Lewis GrizzardThat's the secret to life... replace one worry with another....Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie BrownLife happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. -----------------Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. ----------------Chief SeattleLife is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get.Tom Hanks, Forrest GumpSing Ho! For the life of a Bear!Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. MilneStep with care and great tactAnd remember that Life's a Great Balancing ActJust never forget to be dexterous and deftAnd never mix up your right foot with your left.Dr. Suess, Oh, the Places You'll GoLife is short; live it up. --------------KhrushchevWe believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), on atomic energy, Jan. 22, 1947All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence -- and then success is sure.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.Old Indian sayingCrude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.Dinah Shore (1917 - 1994)You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by itaccording to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue BookPromise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue BookWhat is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.CrowfootIn three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.John HaroldIf you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.Marcus GarveyAnd in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)Go Confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)In life, it is not what you know or who you know that counts -- it is both!Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue BookThe only real failure in life is one not learned from.Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue BookFortunately [psychoanalysis] is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.Karen HorneyLife is meant to be enjoyed, not endured.Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue BookLife being what it is, one dreams of revenge.Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.Foster's LawLife is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it.UnknownThe one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass.UnknownWhat most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.UnknownThere are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful.George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.Alan ChadwickLife has no rehearsals, only performances.UnknownLife is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.UnknownDon't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.Richard L. EvansThe tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.UnknownThe great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.William James (1842 - 1910)Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)My goal in life is to survive. Everything else is just a bonus.The LockhornsTime goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.From the last episode of "Cheers"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too. Frederick BuechnerThere is a tide in the affairs of men,Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their lifeIs bound in shallows and in miseries.William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius CaesarNoble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.Millard FullerTo live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top. UnknownThis is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one... George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.ShakespeareLife is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.Etty HilsumLive life to the fullest.Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)In order to write about life, first you must live it!Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961)If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?UnknownWhat is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.Boris PasternakIf one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.Langston HughesThis life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.Susan Polis SchutzThere is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers. Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)To save a Life in defeat, is to receive Victory and Honor.The Best of the Best (motion picture)The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident.Sir Hugh WalpoeBut better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.Victor KiamThere is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.Kenny AusubelLife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shotCharlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way.UnknownHow ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you "come to terms with" only to discover that they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.Ingrid BengisDon't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.Louis E. BooneLife is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.UnknownLife's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. UnknownOur chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.John Paul RichterLife is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.Learned HandLife is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.Kathleen NorrisI don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.Gloria NaylorSeeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.David SearlsIt is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.UnknownIn later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual. Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. UnknownThe bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.George Orwell (1903 - 1950)Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.KellerThe aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My DayThe hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.David RussellFew men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.Richard ByrdThe art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.E. V. LucasLife is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.Lillian Dickson...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.John Milton (1608 - 1674)The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1888).Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.Richard BachIs life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!Patrick HenryThe happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de RegretsI am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls WilderTo be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), OratorI have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. W hat seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.Marcus, Babylon 5The only real failure in life is the failure to try.UnknownThe most important things in life aren't things.Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue BookThe great end of life is not knowledge but action.Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.Phyllis McGinleyWhere life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.Thomas BrowneLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.Emil Nolde'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.Sir Hugh Walpole。