Question:
Please, can you tell me some proverbs or quotes about "life"?
Lini
2013-08-17 08:13:28 UTC
I'm an English teacher in Brazil and I'd like to teach some proverbs to my students that could motivate them.
Thanks in advance!
Seven answers:
anonymous
2013-08-18 11:33:41 UTC
sometimes your ahed,

sometimes your behind,

the race is long, and in the end its only with yourself



Sunscreen

Pretty much the whole "song" is good advice, ^just an extract^
?
2013-08-17 23:41:22 UTC
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Maya Angelou



Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein



If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Saint Augustine



Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Josh Billings



The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Helen Keller



When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Audrey Hepburn



Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry van Dyke



He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day... needs to reorganize his life.

George Matthew Adams



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

Charles Schulz



Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Seneca
anonymous
2013-08-17 08:20:14 UTC
There's 50 for you http://www.theredheadriter.com/2012/11/50-motivationalinspirational-quotes-proverbs-to-lift-your-spirit/
anonymous
2013-08-17 08:23:44 UTC
Some of my favourites are:

"Life's **** and **** happens"

"If it's worth doing it's worth overdoing" -Ayn Rand / Meatloaf

"Think like a man of action; act like a man of thought" -Henri Bergson

"Expect problems and eat them for breakfast" -Alfred Montapert



Admittedly they a=mmay not be what you're looking for bu this website is always good :P

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/topics/topic_motivational.html
?
2013-08-17 08:19:20 UTC
"life! Don't talk to me about life!" Marvin the Paranoid Android from Douglas Adams' "Hitch Hiker's guide to the Galaxy".



Get your class to read the books. They are beautifully written and very funny.
LH
2013-08-17 14:03:31 UTC
Best life inspired quotes are at Mstrive.com http://www.mstrive.com try the life category as well as 60 other categories
LAVENDER
2013-08-17 08:54:05 UTC
life is a race...

though this phrase may sound simple its pretty interesting........


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