Quotes: Life (3)

Life 1144 Is one life time enough to accomplish all that you wish to accomplish? "…and now, perchance, began to suspect that one lifetime is too brief for the accomplishment of any lofty aim…" Hawthorne: Preface to “The Old Manse”

Life 1145 What is the goal of life? To do right, but the world has lost its focus on that goal. " …restoring to us the simple perception of what is right, and the single-hearted desire to achieve it; both of which have long been lost, in consequence of this weary activity of brain, and torpor or passion of the heart that now afflicts the universe." Hawthorne: Preface to “The Old Manse”

Life 1146 Man has created a labyrinth and now seeks a clue to how to escape it. "…to whom just so much of insight had been imparted, as to make life all a labyrinth around them—came to seek the clue that should guide them out of their self-involved bewilderment." Hawthorne: Preface to “The Old Manse”

Life 19 Most people don't wonder about the meaning of their lives. "…Nature has never put the fatal question as to the meaning of their lives into the mouths of most people." Jung. 1934. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 25 There is no tranquility in life because life is motion. "There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind, while we live here; because life itself is but motion...." Hobbes. 1651. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 25 The world can be defined as discord. "The world is a vast temple dedicated to discord." Voltaire. 1752. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 26 "Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing for the future." Antoine Rivarol. Late 18th century. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 28 "Life is a great bundle of little things." Oliver Wendell Holmes, son. 1859. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 28 We cannot shape circumstances; we must comply with them. "Things are greater than we, and will not comply with us; we, who are less than things, must comply with them." Benjamin Whichcote. 1703. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Life 29 We observe life's tragedies and then we must play a part in them. "Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for awhile and then act out our part in it." Swift, 1711. Gross, ed. Oxford Book of Aphorisms.