Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Roger Zelazny

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes. [On filming MacHale's Navy].

Michael Caine

Life is just a bowl of pits.

Rodney Dangerfield

Life is also a mixture of unsolved problems, ambiguous victories and vague defeats-with very few moments of clear peace.

Hugh Prather

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

Paris Hilton

Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.

Sir Thomas Malory

Zffff...what was that, sir? That was your life. Can I get another one? No, sorry.

Basil Fawlty

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Michael J. Gelb

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Lucy Lawless

...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

B. F. Skinner

Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.

Ian Philpot

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler Ross

The reinvention of daily life means marching off the edge of our maps.

Bob Black

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.

Edna Ferber

Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Edvard Munch

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Edwin Way Teale

In quiet moments when you think about it, you recognize what is critically important in life and what isn't. Be wise and don't let good things crowd out those that are essential.

Elder Richard G. Scott

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.

Elizabeth Bishop

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Erik Erikson, Dr.

A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face.

Etty Hilsum

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly awar.

Eugene Ionesco

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.

Senator Everett Dirksen

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.

George Bernard Shaw

The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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 two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

George Bernard Shaw

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Aristotle

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

Aristotle

In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.

Aristotle

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

Soren Kierkegaard

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.

Aristotle

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

Aristotle

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Aristotle

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle

May you live to be a hundred years old, and may the last voice you hear be mine.

Frank Sinatra

I'm gonna live till I die.

Frank Sinatra

In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

General Douglas MacArthur

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.

Oprah Winfrey

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

Carl Jung

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace Mann

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Socrates

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

Socrates

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways--I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.

Socrates

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

M. C. Escher

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Storm Jameson

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

Socrates

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Socrates

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Socrates

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace Mann

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Seneca

Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!

Friedrich Nietzsche

For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A profession is the backbone of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

Amor Fati – 'Love Your Fate', which is in fact your life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to write about life, first you must live it!

Ernest Hemingway

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.

Oscar Wilde

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.

Oscar Wilde

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Oscar Wilde

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Oscar Wilde

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Oscar Wilde

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

Oscar Wilde

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Oscar Wilde

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Oscar Wilde

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde

When I was young, I thought money was the most important thing in life. Now, when I'm old, I know it is.

Oscar Wilde

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

Oscar Wilde

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Oscar Wilde

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Oscar Wilde

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Oscar Wilde

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

Clifford Stoll

The way to know life is to love many things.

Vincent van Gogh

Education is life itself.

John Dewey

School is not preparation for life, but school is life.

John Dewey

Live life to the fullest.

Ernest Hemingway

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Betty Friedan

We just had a near-life experience!

Chuck Palahniuk

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

To live is to think.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

What then is freedom ? The power to live as one wishes.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Benjamin Disraeli

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Benjamin Disraeli

Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.

Aeschylus

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Henry Ford

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity.

Yiddish proverb

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.

Yiddish proverb

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.

John F. Kennedy

We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Dr. Thomas Fuller

I live for books.

Thomas Jefferson

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

Charles M. Schulz

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson

The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

Thomas Jefferson

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Deepak Chopra

Dogbert: 'Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemon, make lemonade.' Dilbert: 'But i'm allergic to citrus.' Dogbert: 'Well you know what they say, when life gives you lemons, swell up and die.'

Scott Adams

Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.

Les Brown

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one.

John Lennon

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life.... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.

Frank Sinatra

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

John Lennon

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

Robert Frost

You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

Scott Adams

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Oprah Winfrey

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you're willing to work.

Oprah Winfrey

There's no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

Oprah Winfrey

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

Oprah Winfrey

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

Oprah Winfrey

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain.

Harold B. Melchart

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Leonardo da Vinci

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

Albert Camus

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Mae Brown

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life.

Robin Norwood

Man always gets less than he demands from life.

Jack London

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Rita Mae Brown

O generations of men, how I count you as equal with those who live not at all!

Sophocles

No man loves life like him that's growing old.

Sophocles

He who throws away a friend is as bad as he who throws away his life.

Sophocles

It is one of the great secrets of life that those things which are most worth doing, we do for others.

Lewis Carroll

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

Sophocles

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Danny Kaye

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.

Sophocles

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.

Piero Ferrucci

If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

John Atkinson

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

Sophocles

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Death tugs at my ear and says: 'Live, I am coming.'

Oliver Wendell Holmes

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

Bob Newhart

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.

Peter McWilliams

No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.

Terry Josephson

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

Garrison Keillor

Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

William Shakespeare

The sands are number'd that make up my life.

William Shakespeare

During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams.

Tupac Shakur

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

William Shakespeare

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Aldous Huxley

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

Horace Mann

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace Mann

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Epictetus

May you live all the days of your life.

Jonathan Swift

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Mahatma Gandhi

Live simply that others may simply live.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.

Mahatma Gandhi

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

Ernest Hemingway

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

Seneca

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.

Seneca

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

Seneca

Life without the courage for death is slavery.

Seneca

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.

Seneca

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Seneca

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Seneca

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

Seneca

As was his language so was his life.

Seneca