Life and Career Skills

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth."

Chinese Proverb

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world.  This makes it hard to plan the day. "

-Elwyn Brooks White

"Life is simple, its just not easy."

Anonymous

"A life without cause is a life without effect."

Barbarella

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished.  If you're alive, it isn't."

-Richard Bach

"Life's not always fair.  Sometimes you can get a splinter even sliding down a rainbow."

-Cherralea Morgen

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." 

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."

-Jack Handey

-Christopher Morley

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

Kathy Norris

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

-Emily Dickinson

"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."

Ashleigh Brilliant

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop

into your grave. "

Quentin Crisp

"As we struggle to make sense of things, life looks on in repose. "

Author Unknown

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."

-Charles Schulz

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

"Life is like a blanket too short.  You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night." 

Marion Howard

"Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. "

Author Unknown

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

Danny Kaye

"I have a simple philosophy:  Fill what's empty.  Empty what's full.  Scratch where it itches."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Life is like a coin.  You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."

-Lillian Dickson

"We are born wet, naked, and hungry.  Then things get worse."

Author Unknown

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. "

Anonymous

"Life is a cement trampoline."

-Howard Nordberg

"Life... is like a box of chocolates - a cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that no one ever asks for, unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates.  So, you're stuck with mostly undefinable whipped mint crap, mindlessly wolfed down when there's nothing else to eat while you're watching the game.  Sure, once is a while you get a peanut butter cup or an English toffee but it's gone too fast and the taste is fleeting.  In the end, you are left with nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth-shattering nuts, which, if you are desperate enough to eat, leaves nothing but an empty box of useless brown paper."

The X-Files

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled."

Author Unknown

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

Grandma Moses

"I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer."

Jim Carrey

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. "

John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."

-Erich Fromm

"My formula for living is quite simple.  I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night.  In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

-Cary Grant

"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach."

-Havelock Ellis

"Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another."

-Author Unknown

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."

-Louis Adamic

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

-Anonymous

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire.  I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl.  Let him come out as I do, and bark."

-Samuel Johnson

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told:  "I am with you kid.  Let's go."

-Maya Angelou

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Why torture yourself when life will do it for you? "

-Anonymous

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

-George Bernard Shaw.

"Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. "

-Dennis P. Costea, Jr.

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.  The world owes you nothing.  It was here first."

-Mark Twain

"Life is the game that must be played."

-Edwin Arlington Robinson

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.  You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. "

-Albert Camus

"There is no wealth but life."

-John Ruskin

"I know what things are good:  friendship and work and conversation.  These I shall have."

-Rupert Brooke

"Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise."

-Anonymous

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Life is not a final.  It's daily pop quizzes. "

-Anonymous

"We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones."

-Anonymous

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. "

- T.S. Eliot

"To succeed in life, you need three things:  a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone."

-Reba Mc