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My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get. -Forrest Gump

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran

Here's to a long life and a merry one A quick death and an easy one A pretty girl and an honest one A cold beer and another one! -Irish Saying

When you're chewing on life's gristle Don't grumble, give a whistle And this'll help things turn out for the best... And...always look on the bright side of life... Always look on the light side of life. -Monty Python's Life of Brian

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

In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. -Charlie Brown

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. -R. D. Laing

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring. -Oscar Wild

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. -J. D. Salinger

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

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is a zoo in a jungle. -Peter De Vries

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. -Isaac Asimov

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -Winston Churchill

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. -Truman Capote

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. -Wally 'Famous' Amos

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. -George Washington Carver

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it. -Jack Handey

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. -Quentin Crisp

Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Where there is love there is life. -Indira Gandhi

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -Martin Luthor King, Jr.

Live dangerously and you live right. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. -A. A. Milne

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. -Thomas Jefferson

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

I have measured out my life with coffee spoonsAny idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. -Anton Chekhov

Life is an incurable disease. -Abraham Cowley

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. -Henry Van Dyke

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth. -Martin H. Fischer

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on. -Robert Frost

During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. -Nelson Mandela

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

Life is nothing without friendship. -Marcus Tullius Cicero

While we are postponing, life speeds by. -Seneca

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. -Jean-Paul Sartre

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. -William Wordsworth

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. -Helen Keller

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. -Anne Frank

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. -Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in. -George Washington Carver

I chatter, chatter, as I flow, To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?- Percy Bysshe Shelley

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.- Mother Teresa

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day. -Anton Chekhov Uncle Vanya

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. Rabindranath Tagore

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. -George Washington Carver

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble-. Blaise Pascal

The richness I achieve comes f.- rom Nature, the source of my inspiration-Claude Monet

Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by, And plant this bee-sucked bough of woodbine there And let the window down. The butterfly Floats in upon the sunbeam, and the fair Tanned face of June, the nomad gipsy, laughs Above her widespread wares, the while she tells The farmers' fortunes in the fields, and quaffs The water from the spider-peopled wells.- Francis Ledwidge June

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. -John Burroughs

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. -John Steinbeck

The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day. -Kenneth Patton

I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven- Rabindranath Tagore

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God. -George Washington Carver

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. -Blaise Pascal

The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration. -Claude Monet

Broom out the floor now, lay the fender by, And plant this bee-sucked bough of woodbine there And let the window down. The butterfly Floats in upon the sunbeam, and the fair Tanned face of June, the nomad gipsy, laughs Above her widespread wares, the while she tells The farmers' fortunes in the fields, and quaffs The water from the spider-peopled wells. -Francis Ledwidge

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. -John Burroughs

There is nothing pleasanter than spading when the ground is soft and damp. -John Steinbeck

leaf is a marvel of a daybring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. -Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. -William Blake

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. -Henry David Thoreau

The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine and fifty swans. -William Butler Yeats

The sun, with all those plants revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do-Galileo

Nature abhors a vacuum-. Aristotle

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. Henry David Thoreau

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. James Russell Lowell

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story. Linda Hogan

A flower is an educated weed. Luther Burbank

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves. Mahatma Gandhi

On every stem, on every leaf ... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar, aphis, or other expert, whose business it was to devour that particular part. Oliver Wendell Holmes

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. Rachel Carson

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Rachel Carson

The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands. Ralph Waldo Emerson

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ralph Waldo Emerson

To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, An eternity in an hour. William Blake

To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven, - to breathe a prayer Full in the smile of the blue firmament. John Keats Sonnet XIV

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. -William Shakespeare

Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find A meaning suited to his mind. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. -Thomas Jefferson

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way. -Aristotle

I am at two with nature. Woody Allen

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who posses it. Henry Ward Beecher

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. Max Beerbohm

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Ingrid Bergman

It is the law of nature that woman should be held under the dominance of man. Confucius

Nature can do more than physicians. Oliver Cromwell

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. August Rodin

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay, Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. -Robert Herrick

You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always hurry back. -Horace

Trees and fields tell me nothing; men are my teachers. -Plato

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. -Walt Whitman

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher. -William Wordsworth And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight. -John Lennon

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. -Winston Churchill

If we wish to create a lasting peace we must begin with the children. -Mahatma Gandhi

I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war. -Cicero

War is cruelty and you cannot refine it. -Gen. William T. Sherman

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. -Ernest Hemingway

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. -George Orwell

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Duke Of Wellington

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars -- yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds. -Mahatma Gandhi

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous. -George Bernard Shaw

We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world. The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours. -Robert Baden-Powell

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. -Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. -Abraham Lincoln

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings. -William Butler Yeats

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. -Mahatma Gandhi

There is no way to peace. Peace is the way. -A.J. Muste

It's the friends you can call up at 4:00 a.m. that really matter. -- Marlene Dietrich

Life is nothing without friendship. -- Cicero

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved. -- Sydney Smith

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tre. -- Emily Bronte

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. -- Peguy

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. -- Joseph Parry

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. -- Euripides

One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.-- Hasidic Saying

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. -- Sicilian Proverb

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends... -- Virginia Woolf

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship... -- William Blake

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong... -- Mark Twain

True friends stab you in the front. -- Oscar Wilde

Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labor -- The Bible

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other. -- George Eliot

Whatever you are it is your own friends who make your world... -- William James

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies... -- Aristotle

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your... -- Kahlil Gibran

Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you... -- Elbert Hubbard

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