Life Is
Age lets you be the person you would have been, if you hadn’t been so busy being the person you were.
Margie
The person I was, and the person I am, has always collected Quotations. One category I enjoy is the definition of what life is:
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle but you don’t have the picture on the front of the box to know what it’s supposed to look like. Sometimes, you’re not even sure if you have all of the pieces.
(from the book, A Whack on the Side of the Head)Life is easier if you dread only one day at a time.
Charles M. SchulzLife is hard. Then you die. In between you are a volunteer.
This was my ‘mantra’ during all those years of being on Volunteer Boards!Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
Robert Fulghum
I collected quotes like this when our youngest child had cancer.Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.
Peg BrackenLife is tragic, but not necessarily serious.
Life is short… ask directions
Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hairstylist you like.
It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another – it’s the same damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Many more quotes are scattered throughout this blog. Maybe someday I will round them up on a page or ten.
I’ve been thinking about “life” as well. I don’t have a quote, but maybe something just as long lasting. My next business venture…..thinking of calling it “The Good Life”. It will be an urban homestead that gathers together various experts to teach about what they do to promote health, happiness, creativity, better communities, food, fun, growing, etc. Any of the things that would help define, The Good Life.
Perhaps this Quote by Annie Dillard: There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
I have carried with me, through almost 53 years of life TWO subtle quotes that really have meaning – at least for me anyway. Incidentally, I was amused to find this page on your volume and it made me happy. As a result I thought I’d share these with the readership, wherever and whoever that may be…
1. “Life is simply a collection of memories, and memories are like starlight, they go on forever”. Bill Fries
2. “You are what you think you are” . Robert G. Allen
Thank you for the contributions to the Life Is page. I think the list could go on forever too!
“Age lets you be the person you would have been, if you hadn’t been so busy being the person you were.”
I absolutely LOVE this quote! At 43 I am just starting to understand this and trying to figure out how to alter the “person I am” part before it becomes the “person you were” part. Great stuff!
Hi Steve, I just added your blog to my Google Reader feeds, and the links on my site. I will eventually get caught up on reading your posts and then commenting!
The quote you like is actually mine, as far as I know… but I read a lot, and I have vivid dreams, so it is sometimes hard to tell where things actually come from.
It is a tricky task to alter who you are now. Much of that has to do with who you have to be for the people who depend on you. That is what is so good about life after the kids achieve independence. You have the freedom to invent a new self!
You’ve go lots of time – enjoy the journey!
Not upbeat, but two of my favorites:
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
And one from the movie, Con Air, uttered by an insane killer (in the movie, of course); However, I still like it: “What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to piss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn’t you consider that to be insane?”
I guess I like them because they keep this journey in perspective, a bit. HF
Hi Harper – Thanks for three sober reflections about the end of the road – makes me think we all need to work harder at enjoying the now!