Elbert Hubbard - Life Quotes

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Do not take life too seriously – you will never get out of it alive.

Elbert Hubbard
Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.

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I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. That is to say, I desire to be Radiant -- to Radiate Life!

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Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.

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I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

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The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

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Do not dump your woes upon people — keep the sad story of your life to yourself. Troubles grow by recounting them.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

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Love, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

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Life is a dangerous business — few indeed get out of it alive.

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Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

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The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

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A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

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The great Big Black Things that have loomed against the horizon of my life, threatening to devour me, simply loomed and nothing more. The things that have really made me miss my train have always been sweet, soft, pretty, pleasant things of which I was not in the least afraid.

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Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.

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Theology, by diverting the attention of men from this life to another, and by endeavoring to coerce all men into one religion, constantly preaching that this world is full of misery, but the next world would be beautiful - or not, as the case may be - has forced on men the thought of fear where otherwise there might have been the happy abandon of nature.

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I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday.

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Life consists in molting our illusions. We form creeds today only to throw them away tomorrow. The eagle molts a feather because he is growing a better one.

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Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves.

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I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

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