Life is...

I found this interesting link on life quotes (check this out) --- http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_life.html.

We've heard the more popular ones...
Life is a game, a journey, a theme park --- short, unfair, beautiful, and not easy --- like a box of chocolates or a taxi, or a candle in the wind. Ah, such is life. We'll never get enough of it.

I've listed some quotes below (I don't necessarily agree with all of them; these are my own eclectic selection) - clips of interesting ones to boggle our minds. Or at least make us reflect on what life is... (So read on! My quick comments follow the credits).

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. (Carl Sandburg)> I think I weep ALL the time when I peel an onion layer by layer. That's why I just slice it.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. (Charles Bronte)> Two things - either you always aim high, or expect the worst.

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. (Corita Kent)> Cheers!

Life is a quest and love a quarrel ... (Edna St. Vincent Millay)> Fight on!

Life is relationships; the rest is just details. (Gary Smalley)> So they say, all of us are connected by six degrees.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. (George Santayana)> Celebrate, anyone?

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. (Isaac Asimov)> Me too!

But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities. (John Maxwell)> Why 21, I wonder...

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. (John Lennon)> Do not over-plan, have a life Gen.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain)> For some people, it takes much less than 20 years to realize that.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. (Oscar Wilde)
> Yeah, most.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson)> These are the basic.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. (Robert Frost)> Another basic.

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it. (Tom Lehrer) Eew?! GIGO.

Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf. (Toni Morrison)> Mariposa leaving the cocoon.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code. (Unknown) Ha-ha! Good thing, the One up there didn't give it to you; you're just way too brilliant and dangerous to program your own life.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. (Wallace Stegner)> Ah-huh, doc.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Will Rogers)> Soo applicable to me?

...Hope you had a fun time reading. Enjoy, live and value life!