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Life is a dead-end street. (Jane Thomas)
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. (Jane Thomas)
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. (Jane Thomas)
Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest. (Jane Thomas)
My art and profession is to live. (Jane Thomas)
The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance. (Jane Thomas)
The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up. (Jane Thomas)
Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it. (Jane Thomas)
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. (Jane Thomas)
This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge. (Jane Thomas)
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. (Jane Thomas)
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. (Jane Thomas)
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it. (Jane Thomas)
Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. (Jane Thomas)
Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short. (Jane Thomas)
If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment. (Jane Thomas)
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal. (Jane Thomas)
Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. (Jane Thomas)
Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared. (Jane Thomas)
Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease. (Jane Thomas)
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it. (Jane Thomas)
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