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“Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.”

Life Planets Paint Coats Life Is Like Paintbrush

Author:Daniel Dennett

“Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you.”

Life Life Is Attitude Mirrors Smile Positivity Life Is Like Your Smile Just Smile Smile To The World

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.”

Knows Life Made Life Is Pleasure Sweet Life Is Like Drains Cocktails Cherries Dregs Sweet Things

Author:Edgar Guest

“Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?”

Life Wells Life Is Disaster Life Is Like Seals

Book:Dream Work

Source: Dream Work

“A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.”

Men Life Should Wells Life Is Depth Length Snakes Life Is Like

Author:Austin O'Malley

“Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.”

Life School Life Is Behinds Grades Graduates Life Is Like Skip

Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“Life is like an elevator. On your way up, sometimes you have to stop and let some people off.”

People Way Life Sometimes Life Is Metaphor Lifts Stopping Life Is Like Elevators

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Success Life Is Positive Educational Bad Ass Life Is Like Trumpets

Author:William Christopher Handy

“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”

Life I Can Life Is Impossible Goes On Rounds Metaphor Following Determined Opponents Boxing Bells Propositions Life Is Like Matched

Book:On Boxing

Source: On Boxing

“Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.”

Ifs Life Matter Seems Life Is Streets Walking Crosses Opposites Obstacles Fewer Crowded Life Is Like Pavement Getting Along Crowded Streets

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.”

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Author:Ray Dalio

“Life is like cooking your masterpiece recipe. You have to get the right ingredients,have the right mixture and the right cooking time to reveal the PERFECT and DELICIOUS TASTE of your craft.”

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Author:Bette Midler

“Life's a party. Invite yourself.”

Life Party Invites Life Is Like

Author:Gary Johnson