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Samuel Butler Quotes and Sayings
Quotes by Samuel Butler

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear,
feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology

A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
- Samuel Butler

The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler

Life Quotes and Sayings

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
- John Lennon

To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a journey - enjoy the journey.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Knowing your own darkness is the best method
for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
- Carl Jung

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Make a conscious choice to live
a serene and stress-free life.
Stress is always waiting just outside your door
like a vicious wild-dog.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is truly known only to those who suffer,
lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
- Anais Nin

To live a creative life
we must lose our fear of being wrong.
- Joseph Chilton Pearce

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.
Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow.
Let reality be reality.
Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
- Lao Tzu

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

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

The book of life is filled with incoherent riddles.
Life's true lessons are inscribed in a corner of the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every human life contains a potential,
if that potential is not fulfilled,
then that life was wasted...
- Carl Jung

Life doesn't play favorites.
- Anonymous

Life is in our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

In the arena of human life,
the honors and rewards fall to those
who show their good qualities in action.
- Aristotle

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
- Anonymous

Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus

A life is not important except in
the impact it has on other lives.
- Jackie Robinson (baseball player)

Life is not a tragedy, it is a comedy.
To be alive means to have a sense of humor.
- Osho

Life is too short, time is too precious,
and the stakes are too high
to dwell on what might have been.
- Hilary Clinton

Life only appears complicated when one is worrying.
Relax, and life becomes simple again.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

The greatest obstacle to a Joyful Life
is your "story" about your life.
Your story is filled with perceives needs and obligations.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Hitch a Ride on the River of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Life is soft and smooth when lived gently.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A life, deeply rooted, lives and grows in memory.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

A life lived Boldly and Joyfully is a Heroic Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Life is like dancing.
If we have a big floor, many people will dance.
Some will get angry when the rhythm changes.
But life is changing all the time.
- don Miguel Ruiz

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Life is a Crazy-Quilt of Suffering and Joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
- Eleanor Roosevelt

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
- Henry David Thoreau

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley

Okay, so it's a matter of life and death - now are you happy?
Urgency is never a path to joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life just happens - enjoy it anyway.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman

Be prepared for life -
to live happily and without regret,
knowing that you have done your best.
- the Boy Scout Handbook

If we like what we do, if we always do our best,
then we are really enjoying life.
We are having fun, we don't get bored,
we don't have frustrations.
- don Miguel Ruiz

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.
- M. P. Follett

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau

Life is now.
There was never a time when your life was not now,
nor will there ever be.
- Eckhart Tolle

Life is greater than you have ever known it.
- Ernest Holmes

Life is all in the perspective we take on it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is a succession of lessons
which must be lived to be understood.
- Helen Keller

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin

Life is a nurturing mother,
when you just remember to say "thank you."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Life was meant to be lived,
and curiosity must be kept alive.
One must never, for whatever reason,
turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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Today is Your Day to Dance Lightly with Life.  It Really Is.
      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie