Without the rain there would be no rainbow. Gilbert Chesterton

Challenges, failures, defeats and ultimately, progress, are what make your life worthwhile. Maxime Lagacé

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. Steve Jobs

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness. Steve Maraboli

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot find peace avoiding life. Virginia Woolf

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! Alfred Adler

Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it. Charles Swindoll

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don’t let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low. John Wooden

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Stephen Hawking

I enjoy life when things are happening. I don’t care if it’s good things or bad things. That means you’re alive. Joan Rivers

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. Eminem

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. Ralph Waldo Emerson

PART 4. WHAT IS LIFE EXACTLY? THE BEST AUTHORS REVEAL IT
WHAT IS LIFE? BY ALAN BALL, ANAIS NIN, BRUCE LEE, ETC.
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Life is to entered upon with courage. Alexis de Tocqueville

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process. Anne Wilson Schaef

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present. Alan Watts

My life is my argument. Albert Schweitzer

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together. Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not. Bruce Lee

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I’ve certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you – and some of those places are kind of wonderful. Alan Ball

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. Alan Bennett

Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art. Anselm Kiefer

Life is a dance floor. So dance, don’t miss the chance. Bar Refaeli

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. Benjamin Disraeli

Life is beautiful because it doesn’t last. Brit Marling

To live is to express, and to express, you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation. Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems. Bruce Lee

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal. Albert Schweitzer

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. Albert Schweitzer

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier. Bruce Lee

WHAT IS LIFE? BY CARL ROGERS, HELEN KELLER, JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI, ETC.
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Life is a lively process of becoming. Douglas MacArthur

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. Charlie Chaplin

Life is amazing. Life is fucking messy. Life is what you make of it. Dwayne Johnson (The Rock)

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature. Citium Zeno

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. Carl Rogers

Life isn’t as serious as the mind makes it out to be. Eckhart Tolle

Life is just one damned thing after another. Elbert Hubbard

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. Helen Keller

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 onto future generations. George Bernard Shaw

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition tat’s troublesome. Isaac Asimov

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. Isabel Allende

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London

Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on. Jeff Ross

Life is truly a ride. We’re all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he’s ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair’s messed, you’re out of breath, and you didn’t throw up. Jerry Seinfeld

Life is empty, and realizing that, we want to fill it, we are seeking – seeking ways and means, not only to fill this emptiness but also to find something that is not to be measured by man. Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our whole life is solving puzzles. Erno Rubik

Life is a dead-end street. H. L. Mencken

Life is largely a matter of expectation. Homer

WHAT IS LIFE? BY JOHN BANVILLE, MARCUS AURELIUS, WOODY ALLEN, ETC.
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Life is tragic but it’s equally comic. John Banville

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. Marcus Aurelius

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. Leo Tolstoy

Life is a series of commas, not periods. Unknown

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. Morihei Ueshiba

Life is really a dance if you are original, and you are meant to be original. Osho

Life is not a problem. To look at it as a problem is to take a wrong step. It is a mystery to be lived, loved, experienced. Osho

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. Marge Piercy
Life is a zoo in a jungle. Peter De Vries

Life is a continuous process of adjustment. Indira Gandhi

Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Ralph Ellison

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments. Rose Kennedy

The joy of life consists in the inevitable, continual triumph of new values. Wassily Kandinsky

Life is a game and true love is a trophy. Rufus Wainwright

Life is not an exact science, it is an art. Samuel Butler

Life is one long process of getting tired. Samuel Butler

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. Sholom Aleichem

Life is a movie; death is a photograph. Susan Sontag

Life is available only in the present moment. Thich Nhat Hanh

Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got. Tim Cook (Apple CEO)

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die. Tom Clancy

Life is lived on the edge. Will Smith