Quotations and Poems

» “I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
– Diane Ackerman

» “The less routine the more life.”
– Amos Bronson Alcott

» “Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.”
– Sholom Aleichem

» “A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
– James Allen

» “Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.”
– Woody Allen

» “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel

» “Every man’s life is a fairy tale written by God’s finger.”
– Hans Christian Anderson

» “Life loves the liver of it.”
– Maya Angelou

» “Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ”I’m with you kid. Let’s go.””
– Maya Angelou

» “The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.”
– Minna Antrim

» “The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
– Aristotle

» “When we speak the word ”life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”
– Antonin Artaud

» “Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
– St. Augustine

» “And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “Your life is what your thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius

» “To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.”
– Gaston Bachelard

» “Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.”
– Francis Bacon

» “You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die, or when. You can decide how you’re going to live now.”
– Joan Baez

» “Life is always walking up to us and saying, ”Come on in, the living’s find,” and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.”
– Russell Wayne Baker

» “Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.”
– Joy Baluch

» “Life is a long lesson in humility.”
– Sir James M. Barrie

» “The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.”
– Sir James M. Barrie

» “The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.”
– John Barrymore

» “The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.”
– Bernard M. Baruch

» “You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.”
– Lucinda Basset

» “Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.”
– Jean Baudrillard

» “In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”
– Bill Baughan

» “Life is a sexually transmitted disease.”
– Guy Bellamy

» “Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
– Stephen Vincent Benet

» “We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.”
– Walter Benjamin

» “Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.”
– Bernard Berenson

» “Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It’s in our hands.”
– Cathy Better

» “For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. [James 4:14]“
– Bible

» “The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. [Psalms 90:10]“
– Bible

» “Don’t worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]“
– Bible

» “All that man has will he give for his life.”
– Bible

» “Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.”
– Ambrose Bierce

» “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”
– Josh Billings

» “Life is short, but it’s long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.”
– Josh Billings

» “Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can’t suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.”
– Josh Billings

» “Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.”
– Professor Blackie

» “For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
– William Blake

» “We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.”
– Paul Boese

» “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”
– Corrie Ten Boom

» “It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.”
– Evangeline Cory Booth

» “There’s night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there’s likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?”
– George Borrow

» “The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.”
– Nadia Boulanger

» “Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.”
– Christian Nevell Bovee

» “Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
– Bertolt Brecht

» “What should I say about life? That it’s long and abhors transparence.”
– Joseph Brodsky

» “Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God’s Paradise.”
– Phillips Brooks

» “The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.”
– Heywood Broun

» “I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.”
– Les Brown

» “Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.”
– William Adams Brown

» “I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.”
– Robert Browning

» “On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.”
– Buddha

» “This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
– Buddha

» “Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality–not as we expect it to be but as it is–is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.”
– Frederick Buechner

» “I think we’re here for each other.”
– Carol Burnett

» “Real life seems to have no plots.”
– Ivy Compton Burnett

» “Life’s but a day at most.”
– George Burns

» “Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life.”
– George Burns

» “Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.”
– John Burroughs

» “Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”
– Leo Buscaglia

» “Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.”
– Philip Butler

» “Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.”
– Samuel Butler

» “To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
– Samuel Butler

» “Life is one long process of getting tired.”
– Samuel Butler

» “When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.”
– Lord Byron

» “Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.”
– Lord Byron

» “It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.”
– Lord Byron

» “Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.”
– Lord Byron

» “The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”
– James Branch Cabell

» “Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.”
– Eileen Caddy

» “In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.”
– Sid Caesar

» “What is life? A frenzy. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a fiction. And the greatest good is trivial; for all life is a dream and all dreams are dreams.”
– Pedro Calderón de la Barca

» “The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.”
– John C. Calhoun

» “People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.”
– Joseph Campbell

» “If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
– Albert Camus

» “We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.”
– Albert Camus

» “Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.”
– Albert Camus

» “Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.”
– Albert Camus

» “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus

» “In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people’s disputes but he heartily repented of it.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
– Thomas Carlyle

» “One of the most appalling comments on our present way of life is that half of all the beds in our hospitals are reserved for patients with nervous and mental troubles, patients who have collapsed under the crushing burden of accumulated yesterdays and fearful tomorrows. Yet a vast majority of those people would be walking the streets today, leading happy, useful lives, if they had only heeded the words of Jesus: Have no anxiety about the morrow; or the words of Sir William Osler; Live in day-tight compartments.”
– Dale Carnegie

» “Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.”
– Georges Carpentier

» “If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
– Johnny Carson

» “Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life.”
– Rachel Carson

» “We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.”
– Jimmy Carter

» “Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.”
– Violet Bonham Carter

» “Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it’s the transparency that counts.”
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine

» “Living, just by itself — what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom’s the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you’ve got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that’s terribly exciting –or he’ll come along and nibble your brain.”
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine

» “She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.”
– Miguel De Cervantes

» “When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

» “Life itself is the proper binge.”
– Julia Child

» “Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.”
– Jennie Jerome Churchill

» “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
– Winston Churchill

» “While there’s life, there’s hope.”
– Marcus T. Cicero

» “Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.”
– Frank A. Clark

» “In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there’s no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.”
– Les Claypool

» “Attack life, it’s going to kill you anyway.”
– Steven Coallier

» “Life is a horizontal fall.”
– Jean Cocteau

» “What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
– Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

» “Life isn’t like a book. Life isn’t logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

» “It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”
– Joseph Conrad

» “Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”
– Joseph Conrad

» “Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.”
– Shirley Conran

» “We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages — we don’t throw it away all at once.”
– Robert A. Cook

» “Every morning I wake up saying, I’m still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.”
– Jacques Cousteau

» “A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.”
– William Cowper

» “Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
– Quentin Crisp

» “What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
– Crowfoot

» “The joy of life consists in the exercise of one’s energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”
– Aleister Crowley

» “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
– Madame Marie Curie

» “If life doesn’t offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo

» “Our life is made by the death of others.”
– Leonardo Da Vinci

» “The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.”
– Dante Alighieri

» “Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”
– Sir Humphrey Davy

» “It’s not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.”
– Roger Dawson

» “Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.”
– P. L. Debevoise

» “If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
РEug̬ne Delacroix

» “Life is just a journey”
– Princess of Wales Diana

» “Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.”
– Charles Dickens

» “Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
– Charles Dickens

» “This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.”
– Charles Dickens

» “Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.”
– Ernest Dimnet

» “Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”
– Benjamin Disraeli

» “Let us live while we live.”
– Philip Doddridge

» “Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.”
– Thomas A. Dorgan

» “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

» “He lives who dies to win a lasting name.”
– Henry Drummond

» “When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.”
– John Dryden

» “People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.”
– Isadora Duncan

» “What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.”
– Lewis L Dunnington

» “Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
– Wayne Dyer

» “Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.”
– Henry Van Dyke

» “He who is not busy being born is busy dying.”
– Bob Dylan

» “The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
– Thomas A. Edison

» “The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
– Albert Einstein

» “We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity… what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.”
– Albert Einstein

» “The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
– George Eliot

» “What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?”
– George Eliot

» “The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
– T. S. Eliot

» “Birth, copulation and death. That’s all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.”
– T. S. Eliot

» “It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.”
– Havelock Ellis

» “Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Life too near paralyses art.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “If we live truly, we shall see truly.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “Live, let live, and help live”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

» “A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”
– Epictetus

» “You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”
– Epictetus

» “A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs…”
– Epicurus

» “Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.”
– Lou Erickson

» “Life is at its best when it’s shaken and stirred.”
– F. Paul Facult

» “Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.”
– Charles Feidelson

» “I used to trouble about what life was for — now being alive seems sufficient reason.”
– Joanna Field

» “Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.”
– W. C. Fields

» “My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.”
– George Foreman

» “Life — No, I’ve nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.”
– Edward M. Forster

» “Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.”
– Viktor E. Frankl

» “Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self’s actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.”
– Viktor E. Frankl

» “Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
– Viktor E. Frankl

» “Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.”
– Viktor E. Frankl

» “I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.”
– Benjamin Franklin

» “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
– Robert Frost

» “I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge — that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts — That hope always triumphs over experience — That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
– Robert Fulghum

» “Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
– Margaret Fuller

» “We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
– Thomas Fuller

» “The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great — and they know I know it.”
– Clark Gable

» “Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it’s what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It’s not what the world holds for you it’s what you bring to it”
– Anne Of Green Gables

» “There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

» “The old Quaker was right: ”I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once. ””
– W. C. Gannett

» “Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.”
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

» “Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live.”
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

» “Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
– Jose Ortega Y Gasset

» “Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!”
– Paul Gauguin

» “Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.”
– Gellert

» “People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.”
– Henry Giles

» “Life is the childhood of our immortality.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

» “Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

» “The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

» “Life is supposed to get tough.”
– Kelsey Grammer

» “Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.”
– Adrienne Gusoff

» “May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.”
– Tom Hanks

» “There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.”
– Donald Harington

» “When I hear somebody sigh that ”Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, ”Compared to what?””
– Sidney J. Harris

» “Life flows on within you and without you.”
– George Harrison

» “Life is made up of marble and mud.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

» “It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
– S. I. Hayakawa

» “The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”
– Helen Hayes

» “So in all these little ways we spin a web, a cocoon, around ourselves. The cocoon becomes nice and snug and comfortable because it is very familiar. We know every little corner of our life; we can even write poetry about it. We may also have ideas about the ”great mystery” which religions speak of, which gives our cocoon an especial sense of security: we can worship the great mystery outside of it and feel good about that. The cocoon is safe, bounded, claustrophobic, and a little stale. We settle into it and live our lives.”
– Jeremy W. Hayward

» “I can’t be bitter. No one has a contract on life.”
– David M. Heath

» “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
– Ernest Hemingway

» “Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.”
– Katharine Hepburn

» “In soft regions are born soft men.”
– Herodotus

» “It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.”
– Don Herold

» “The person lives twice who lives the first life well.”
– Robert Herrick

» “Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.”
– Alexander Herzen

» “The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.”
– George T. Hewitt

» “Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.”
– Thomas L. Holdcroft

» “The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.”
– Josiah Gilbert Holland

» “Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

» “Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

» “Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

» “On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

» “I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “To live is to function. That is all there is in living.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

» “Today, you have 100% of your life left.”
– Tom Hopkins

» “He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
– Horace

» “Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.”
– Horace

» “Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.”
– Elbert Hubbard

» “Life is a voyage.”
– Victor Hugo

» “Those who live are those who fight.”
– Victor Hugo

» “Life is a flower of which love is the honey.”
– Victor Hugo

» “It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.”
– David Hume

» “We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle — even if he can afford more.”
– Massaru Ibuka

» “Half my life is an act of revision.”
– John Irving

» “Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination”
– Christopher Isherwood

» “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
– Henry James

» “Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had?”
– Henry James

» “Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.”
– William James

» “We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
– William James

» “Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.”
– William James

» “The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”
– William James

» “Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.”
– Thomas Jefferson

» “He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.””
– Samuel Johnson

» “Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”
– David Starr Jordan

» “Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”
– James Joyce

» “Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.”
– Franz Kafka

» “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”
– Immanuel Kant

» “Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
– Danny Kaye

» “Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others”
– Helen Keller

» “It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.”
РThomas ̣ Kempis

» “Life is unfair.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It’s very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life”
– John F. Kennedy

» “We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.”
– John F. Kennedy

» “All of life is a foreign country.”
– Jack Kerouac

» “Living Life Tomorrow’s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.”
– Omar Khayyam

» “Life is short; live it up.”
– Nikita Khrushchev

» “This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness… they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived –forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

» “The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.”
– Paul Klee

» “To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.”
– Jack Kornfield

» “You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti

» “If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden where all kinds of flowers can bloom and grow.”
– Elisabeth KüBler-Ross

» “We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.”
– Milan Kundera

» “I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.”
– Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

» “There are three stages in a person’s life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.”
– Jean De La Bruyere

» “If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.”
– Jean De La Bruyere

» “To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism — this is the art of living.”
– Jean De La Fontaine

» “Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.”
– Ann Landers

» “Life has a practice of living you, if you don’t live it.”
– Philip Larkin

» “We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn’t matter so much as it seemed to do — it’s not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn’t matter so much.”
– D. H. Lawrence

» “Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.”
– Stephen B. Leacock

» “Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then — one day — you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then — one day — you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.”
– Denis Leary

» “Life is something you do when you can’t get to sleep.”
– Fran Lebowitz

» “People find life entirely too time-consuming.”
– Stanislaw J. Lec

» “Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.”
– Tom Lehrer

» “Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon

» “The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.”
– H. T. Leslie

» “You only live once — but if you work it right, once is enough.”
– Joe E. Lewis

» “Where there is life there is wishful thinking.”
– Gerald F. Lieberman

» “If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
– Lin Yü-tang

» “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
– Abraham Lincoln

» “The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.”
– Art Linkletter

» “Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

» “Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find ”tomorrow” on the calendars of fools. Forget yesterday’s defeats and ignore the problems of tomorrow. This is it. Doomsday. All you have. Make it the best day of your year. The saddest words you can ever utter are, ”If I had my life to live over again. ”Take the baton, now. Run with it! This is your day! Beginning today, treat everyone you meet, friend or foe, loved one or stranger, as if they were going to be dead at midnight. Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”
– Og Mandino

» “The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn’t.”
– Joseph L. Mankiewicz

» “Life never becomes a habit to me. It’s always a marvel.”
– Katherine Mansfield

» “Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.”
– Imelda Marcos

» “We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.”
– Edwin Markham

» “It’s better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.”
– William Markiewicz

» “We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.”
– Mary McCarthy

» “Can’t nothing make your life work if you ain’t the architect.”
– Terry McMillan

» “Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump; you have to get it right the first time.”
– Margaret Mead

» “We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
– Menander of Athens

» “Life is a dead-end street.”
– H. L. Mencken

» “It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another; it’s one damn thing over and over.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay

» “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.”
– Agnes De Mille

» “Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life’s ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.”
– Henry Miller

» “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.”
– Henry Miller

» “Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.”
– Wilson Mizner

» “My art and profession is to live.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

» “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.”
– Charles Morgan

» “Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.”
– Christopher Morley

» “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
– Grandma Moses

» “This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.”
– Marian Mountain

» “Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get.”
– Forrest Gump Movie

» “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.”
– Lewis Mumford

» “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.”
– Lewis Mumford

» “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.”
– Thornton T. Munger

» “Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.”
– Ogden Nash

» “Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we’ve lost ‘Tis scored; ‘Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.”
– Watchman Nee

» “Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.”
– Peter C. Newman

» “If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

» “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.”
– Nisami

» “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.”
– Kathleen Norris

» “Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.”
– Henri Nouwen

» “Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”
– Eugene O’Neill

» “Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation”
– Radar O’Reilly

» “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.”
– Sir William Osler

» “We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.”
– Sir William Osler

» “This also — that I live, I consider a gift of God.”
– Ovid

» “Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”
– Blaise Pascal

» “Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.”
– Boris Pasternak

» “Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.”
– Cesare Pavese

» “You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

» “Life is like riding a bicycle. You don’t fall off unless you stop peddling.”
– Claude D. Pepper

» “You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.”
– Walker Percy

» “Life is a campaign not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories.”
– Don Piatt

» “Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one’s life.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life — bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.”
– Peace Pilgrim

» “Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.”
– Luigi Pirandello

» “Man values life as a sacred jewel in such a way that he reveres him most who haughtily scorns it.”
– Platen

» “The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.”
– Pliny The Elder

» “Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
– Alfred Polgar

» “We come and go just like ripples in a stream.”
– John V. Politis

» “See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
– Pope John XXIII

» “Life is too short to learn German.”
– R. Porson

» “Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.”
– Robert Powell

» “Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.”
– Hugh Prather

» “Life’s a bitch, and life’s got lots of sisters.”
– Ross Presser

» “Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.”
– V. S. Pritchett

» “Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.”
– Fred Propp Jr.

» “A light heart lives long.”
– Proverb

» “He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life’s pleasures is like a blacksmith’s bellows. He breathes, but does not live.”
– Proverb

» “Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.”
– Proverb

» “Young people talk of what they are doing; old people of what they have done; and fools of what they have a mind to do.”
– Proverb

» “Life is an onion and one cries while peeling it.”
– French Proverb

» “In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.”
– German Proverb

» “Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
– Indian Proverb

» “There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.”
– Persian Proverb

» “May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!”
– Scottish Proverb

» “No one knows when they are well off.”
– Punch

» “Dance like no one is watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it’s heaven on earth.”
– William Purkey

» “Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”
– Gilda Radner

» “Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.”
– Ralph Ransom

» “Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting — an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.”
– James Redfield

» “Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.”
– Lou Reed

» “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
– Eben Eugene Rexford

» “Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

» “Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”
– Arthur Rimbaud

» “What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.”
– Arthur Rimbaud

» “Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.”
– Antoine Rivarol

» “Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
– Anthony Robbins

» “The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
– Carl Rogers

» “In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.”
– Will Rogers

» “If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

» “Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

» “Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

» “The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

» “Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “To live is not breathing it is action.”
– Jean Jacques Rousseau

» “Even when I’m sick and depressed, I love life.”
– Arthur Rubenstein

» “It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.”
– John Ruskin

» “There is no wealth but life.”
– John Ruskin

» “Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.”
– Bertrand Russell

» “Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.”
– Lady R. Russell

» “Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
– Antoine De Saint-Exupery

» “There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.”
– Harrison Salisbury

» “Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
– George Santayana

» “The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.”
– George Santayana

» “Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
– William Saroyan

» “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

» “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre

» “Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.”
– David A. Schmaltz

» “Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

» “Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.”
– Albert Schweitzer

» “Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.”
– Sir Walter Scott

» “Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.”
– Sir John Robert Seeley

» “So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
– Seneca

» “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
– Seneca

» “Life is warfare.”
– Seneca

» “I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?”
– Seneca

» “People should always have something which they prefer to life.”
– Johann G. Seume

» “Simply the thing I am shall make me live.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.”
– William Shakespeare

» “Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
– George Bernard Shaw

» “Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

» “There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.”
– Carol Shields

» “The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”
– Florence Scovel Shinn

» “In making a living today, many no longer leave room for life.”
– Joseph R. Sizoo

» “Well, take your time and don’t live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you’ll find love. Don’t forget, son, there is someone up above.”
– Lynard Skynard

» “Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.”
– Samuel Smiles

» “To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one’s power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man’s journey is about, I think.”
– Lillian Smith

» “There is one thing that matters — to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
– Logan Pearsall Smith

» “In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.”
– Socrates

» “The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”
– Socrates

» “An unexamined life is not worth living.”
– Socrates

» “Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.”
– Sophocles

» “Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”
– Robert Southey

» “Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.”
– Herbert Spencer

» “Live long and prosper.”
– Benjamin Spock

» “The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence of life, or growth, or change: it passes, as we do, from one stage to the another, from darkness to darkness, into a distance where we, too, vanish out of sight. A work of art is static; and its value and its weakness lie in being so: but the tuft of grass and the clouds above it belong to our own travelling brotherhood.”
– Freya Stark

» “Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don’t watch it, and so slowly if we do.”
– John Steinbeck

» “It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts!”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

» “I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it’s good fun.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

» “We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

» “Life is a means of extracting fiction.”
– Robert Stone

» “Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.”
– Tom Stoppard

» “Give a man a dollar and you cheer his heart. Give him a dream and you challenge his heart. Give him Christ and you change his heart. Then the dollar and the dream become meaningful to him, and to others.”
– C. Neil Strait

» “May you live all the days of your life.”
– Jonathan Swift

» “When I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

» “Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
– Sir William Temple

» “Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.”
– Robert Thibodeau

» “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.”
– Dylan Thomas

» “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life… I wanted to live so sturdily and so Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life… to drive life into a corner… to know it by experience and be able to give an account of it in my next excursion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I’m sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”
– Henry David Thoreau

» “He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.”
– Johann Ludwig Tieck

» “Only those live who do good.”
– Count Leo Tolstoy

» “Reality is the crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.”
– Lily Tomlin

» “Life is not a dress rehearsal.”
– Rose Tremain

» “Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one’s head.”
– Mark Twain

» “Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
– Mark Twain

» “The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.”
– Source Unknown

» “Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.”
– Source Unknown

» “Live poor so you can die rich.”
– Source Unknown

» “Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.”
– Source Unknown

» “Making a life comes before making a living.”
– Source Unknown

» “No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.”
– Source Unknown

» “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”
– Source Unknown

» “Take life as you find it, but don’t leave it that way”
– Source Unknown

» “The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.”
– Source Unknown

» “The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn’t end.”
– Source Unknown

» “To a wise man every day is a new life.”
– Source Unknown

» “To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.”
– Source Unknown

» “One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we’re sworn”
– Source Unknown

» “The average person living to age 70 has 613, 000 hours of life. This is too long a period not to have fun.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who’s my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout”
– Source Unknown

» “Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.”
– Source Unknown

» “A life is like a tree — if you don’t make it straight when its young and green, you’ll never do it when it’s old and dry.”
– Source Unknown

» “A man’s life is 20 years of having his mother ask him where he is going, 40 years of having his wife ask the same question and, at the end, perhaps having the mourners wondering too.”
– Source Unknown

» “After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.”
– Source Unknown

» “First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dying”
– Source Unknown

» “It doesn’t matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you’re there”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.”
– Source Unknown

» “Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat… the redeeming things are not ”happiness and pleasure” but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you’ve got of tasting vinegar.”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is not one thing after another. It’s the same damn thing over and over!”
– Source Unknown

» “Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition”
– Source Unknown

» “It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.”
– Source Unknown

» “There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.”
– Henry Van Dyke

» “We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
– Voltaire

» “My life is a battle.”
– Voltaire

» “Life is a zoo in a jungle.”
– Peter De Vries

» “The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
– Denis Waitley

» “Life is a comedy for those who think… and a tragedy for those who feel.”
– Horace Walpole

» “Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.”
– William A. Ward

» “Life is a state of mind.”
– Jack Warden

» “People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly”
– Andy Warhol

» “Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.”
– Simone Weil

» “Life is an uphill business for the guy who’s not on the level.”
– John Welsh

» “Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

» “This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.”
– Walt Whitman

» “Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.”
– Michael Wickett

» “Life! Life! Don’t let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d’heure made up of exquisite moments.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim — objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.”
– Oscar Wilde

» “Our life’s journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey’s characteristics are common to all of us.”
– Stuart Wilde

» “If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.”
– Alfonso The Wise

» “I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein

» “Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
– Thomas Wolfe

» “Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.”
– Virginia Woolf

» “The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

» “I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.”
– Steven Wright

» “Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, so. What did you think?”
– Steven Wright

» “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

» “The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man’s special secret of living.”
– J. Z. Young