Inspirations

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

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

- James 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

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

- Aristotle

Order your soul, reduce your wants, live in charity, associate in Christian community, obey the laws, trust in Providence.

- Saint 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

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 marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

- Joy Baluch

Life is a long lesson in humility.

- Sir James M Barrie

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

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 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

Don't worry about your life, what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body.

- Matthew 6:31, Bible

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

- James 4:14, Bible

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

- Josh Billings

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

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

- Nadia Boulanger

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

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

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

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

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

- Samuel Butler

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

- Samuel Butler

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

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

- Albert Camus

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

- Albert Camus

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

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

- Jimmy Carter

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

- Gilbert K Chesterton

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

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

- Steven Coallier

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive, a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

- Jacques Cousteau

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

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

Life is just a journey

- Princess of Wales Diana

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

- Charles Dickens

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

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

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

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

- George Eliot

Live, let live, and help live

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

- Epictetus

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking, whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

- Lou Erickson

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

- W C Fields

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

- Viktor E. Frankl

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

- 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

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

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

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

- Gellert

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

The life of man is a journey, a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.

- Oliver Goldsmith

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

- Tom Hanks

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

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

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

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.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Life is a voyage.

- Victor Hugo

Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

- Victor Hugo

Those who live are those who fight.

- 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

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

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

- Henry James

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

- William James

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

- William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

- William James

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.

- David Starr Jordan

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

Life is short, live it up.

- Nikita Khrushchev

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

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

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 K�Bler-Ross

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

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

- Jean De La Bruyere

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

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

- Stephen B Leacock

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

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

- Lin Y�-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 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

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

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

- Menander of Athens

The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

My art and profession is to live.

- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

- Grandma Moses

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

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

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

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

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

- Blaise Pascal

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

- Boris Pasternak

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May God bless you to live as long as you want to, and want to as long as you live!

- Scottish Proverb

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 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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

- Eben Eugene Rexford

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

- Anthony Robbins

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

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

- Carl Rogers

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

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- 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

There is no wealth but life.

- John Ruskin

The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

- 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 a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

- Paul Santaguida

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

- Robert H Schuller

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

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

- Seneca

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

- 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

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

- William Shakespeare

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 does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

- George Bernard Shaw

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

An unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

- Socrates

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

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

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

- Robert Thibodeau

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

Only those live who do good.

- Count Leo Tolstoy

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

- Rose Tremain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

- Mark Twain

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

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

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

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

- Source Unknown

Life is a continual process of remaking ourselves.

- Source Unknown

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

- Source Unknown

To live is to go on a journey, to die is to come back home.

- Source Unknown

The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

- Source Unknown

The major justification for a life is the happiness and reward it brings to other lives.

- 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

Take life as you find it, but don't leave it that way

- Source Unknown

Making a life comes before making a living.

- 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

Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

- Source Unknown

Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

- Source Unknown

Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

- Source Unknown

No one finds life worth living, he must make it worth living.

- Source Unknown

To a wise man every day is a new life.

- 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

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

- Denis Waitley

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

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

- 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

I have an existential map, it has you are here written all over it.

- 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

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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.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

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.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Life loves the liver of it.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Order your soul, reduce your wants, live in charity, associate in Christian community, obey the laws, trust in Providence.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

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.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.

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.

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.

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.

Don't worry about your life, what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body.

For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

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.

The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.

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.

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.

I think we're here for each other.

Life's but a day at most.

Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

To live is like to love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

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.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

While there's life, there's hope.

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive, a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

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.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

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.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

Life is just a journey

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

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.

Let us live while we live.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.

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.

Maxim for life, You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

Live, let live, and help live

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking, whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.

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.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

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.

Men, for the sake of getting a living forget to live.