E. B. White Life Quotations

Loneliness is a strange gift.

Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train And then rides back to shave again.

An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.

I am pessimistic about the human race because it is too ingenious for its own good. Our approach to nature is to beat it into submission. We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

If you're a person on foot, you take your life into your own hands,

This whole thing came on when I was 37. Up to there I lived a normal life.

I am the oldest on this team. It doesn't bother me. A lot of them are young guys, first year. I am just trying to help them with the life after A ball.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

I've farmed all my life and had livestock killed by coyotes and mountain lions, so I can see both sides of it. It's easy for you and me to say that the guy should give up some grapes to the bears, but he's the one making the mortgage payment.

The people who are supposed to be protectors of wildlife should have a better understanding of the wildlife they are supposed to protect.

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.

Sports and other forms of vigorous physical activity provide educational experience which cannot be duplicated in the classroom. They are an uncompromising laboratory in which we must htink and act quickly and efficiently under pressure and then force us to meet our own inadequacies face to face - and do something about them - as nothing else does. In any athletic activity we are thrown upon our own resources to succeed or fail in the face of a strong and immediate challenge. Sports resemble life in a capsule form and the participant quickly learns that his preformance depends upon the development of strength, stammina, self-discipline and a sure and study judgement.

Intellectually, we know for certain that we are on this planet for a very brief period, yet we tend to live as if we were going to live forever, as if there were no end to our life or to the lives of our friends and family. This not-so-subtle denial of death persists throughout our lives, unless we are lucky enough to get a dramatic, usually painful and invariably life-changing wake-up call. The moments of our lives are ephemeral gifts, and we can not afford to miss even one of them. Happily, you don't have to wait for a painful wake-up call. You can notice the miracle of your life right now. Awareness is a choice.

The payoffs for choosing drama as a way to handle the events of your life are myriad. How about temporarily satisfying, long, go-nowhere conversations that serve to lower the intelligence level of all involved?

The effects on the home life (include) increased anxiety, nervousness, sleeplessness that could impact on their school work. And even more significant is the fact that it's an addictive substance.

I see my life as a part of the earth, a patch of ground to be cultivated. This field I have chosen to call joy. What grows in the field will be some grasses called happiness, and some called anguish, sadness, and disappointment. They are not permanent. They grow, wither and die. But the field of my being remains joyful.

I have nothing to hide. I've had my ups and downs, and went through something 20 years ago. I've been ridiculed and persecuted, but I'm not bitter. I've gone through an enormous change, and now my life is driven by Christ.

because I'm trying to live a Christian life and I want to do that for what happened with him but I've had some dark hours. It has completely destroyed me physically and mentally.

Choosing to live an extraordinary life is simple. This does not, however, mean that it is easy.