Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

Henry Ford

Life is the greatest bargain - we get it for nothing.

Yiddish proverb

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

Robert Frost

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

Wally 'Famous' Amos

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

William Shakespeare

You only live a short time...and you are dead a long time..

Johan Huizinga

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Tennessee Williams

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Ann Landers

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.

Ann Landers

The value of life is not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very little.

Michel de Montaigne

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.

Alfred North Whitehead

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Tom Peters

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Douglas Adams

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Deepak Chopra

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

On the highway of life, we most often recognize happiness out of the rear view mirror.

Frank Tyger

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

Emmet Fox

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Albert Camus

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

G. K. Chesterton

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

Fulton J. Sheen

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Henri Bergson

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

T.s. Eliot

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

John Wayne

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Woody Allen

I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness….

The Dalai Lama

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Woody Allen

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

John Wayne

Life itself is the proper binge.

Julia Child

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Cowley

Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.

Albert Einstein

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.

Bert Mccracken

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter.

Jean Paul Richter

When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you're in good shape.

L. Ron Hubbard

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

Henry David Thoreau

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander Woollcott

We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life.

Sara Paddison

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

Bob Lemon

Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.

George Mikes

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Leon Edel

We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death.

Albert Einstein

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robert A. Heinlein

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Pierre De Coubertin

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.

Gillian Anderson

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery - the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets - is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Arthur Miller

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Thomas Hobbes

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover.

Michael Drayton

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

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

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

Henry David Thoreau

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

Henry David Thoreau

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

The period of earthly life in your greater existence is similar to the 15 minutes of fame you get down here...Everyone gets to share you in a different way. And both are dreams.

Julian Casablancas

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Kahlil Gibran

Life is about balance too much excess is chaos.

Mettrie L.

...it's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself not for everyone else....

Mariska Hargitay

I promise that, one day, everything's going to be better for you.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Gloria Naylor

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Henry Ward Beecher

The chemistry of couples is much like chemistry at the work bench. At the work bench, if the components are correctly chosen, the resulting compounds are likely to be more stable. Similarly with people, if a partner is carefully chosen, the resulting chemical bond between the two will more likely be more stable as opposed to selecting a partner at random. If sex is added to the chemistry and .

Martin Dansky

I believe if life gives you lemons make lemonade…then find someone that life gave vodka to and have a party.

Aaron White

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Otto Weininger

Life is always at some turning point.

Irwin Edman

The quality of life, which in the ardor of spring was personal and sexual, becomes social in midsummer.

Henry Beston

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret.

Robert E. Lee

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Ronald Steel

You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.

Jeanette Winterson

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

Morrie Schwartz

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Drew Barrymore

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.

C. Northcote Parkinson

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

Barbara Bush

Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

Margot Fonteyn

Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Nancy Cartwright

Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy.

Chaim Potok

All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations.

Robert White

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Sara Teasdale

There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.

The Talmud

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

Jeremiah Burroughs

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

Tracy Chapman

"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, .

Octavio Paz

Same dances in the same old shoesYou get too careful with the steps you chooseYou don't care about winningBut You don't want to lose.

The Eagles

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James Dean

Our lives are repetitious shams-every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things-he's fighting against boredom.

Matthew Lotti

A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.

Murray Kempton

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

Charles R. Swindoll

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it.

James Stewart

Nothing lasts for ever but the Earth and sky.

Kerry Livgren

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path....This is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

James Hillman

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Tyler Durden

Life is so unlike theory.

Anthony Trollope

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Ben Stein

Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth.

Chief Seattle

If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea.

Richard Hofstadter

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

Hans Christian Andersen

Time passes and you must move onHalf the distance takes you twice as longSo you keep on singing for the sake of the song.

The Eagles

There's a clock on the wall and it's measuring downThe time you have left til you're dust on the groundThe people you love with the time that you've gotDetermine if you are rememebered or not v i v a l ' a m o u r.

Christine Anderson

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Joseph Addison

Water is life's mater and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

Albert Szent Gyorgyi

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Rabindranath Tagore

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

Jim Davis

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

Henry Moore

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

Herman Hesse

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Madeleine L'Engle

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Natalie Goldberg

Life is like a dance one must know when to move and when not to, and never to hesitate.

Zephyr Bloch jorgensen

The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

Anatole Broyard

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Arthur Rubinstein

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

What I want is what I've not got, and what I need is all around me.

Dave Matthews Band

Life is a crisis - so what!

Malcolm Bradbury

Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

William Goldman

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Jack Youngblood

I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

John Mortimer

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Katherine Anne Porter

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The art is long, life is short.

Hippocrates

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

Richard Bach

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.

Voltaire

Time goes, you say? Ah no! Alas, Time stays, we go.

Austin Dobson

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Voltaire

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

W. C. Fields

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Henry Brooks Adams

We have been given a gift that is really, really precious. It's simple. It isn't going to get us anything. It isn't there to augment anything. It's there for us to be able to experience something that is within ourselves. It is not there to change our religions, our practices, our daily lives. But it is only there for one reason, for one reason alone. Simple happiness. Simple joy.

Maharaji

The most important thing for us is to save lives.

Patrick Perry

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

Aj Mclean

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Warren Spahn

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Havelock Ellis

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.

Henry Louis Mencken

Life is but thought.

Sara Teasdale

I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.

John Mayer

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Viktor Frankl

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Jerry Gillies

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

Truman Capote

The Master of Life's been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.Life and love go on, let the music play.

Johnny Cash

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

Muriel Spark

Life is not fair; get used to it.

Bill Gates

And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.

Francis Quarles

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Saul Alinsky

My next thirty years I'm gonna settle all the scores,Cry a little less, laugh a little more.Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear,Figure out just what I'm doing here.

Tim Mcgraw

Life isn't about living without problems. Life is about solving problems.

Tom Krause

I wonder when someone will grow the testicles to say to americans everywhere, 'Enough with the self-medicating.' Seriously. What ever happened to dealing with life? Life is pain. Life is inconvenience. Life is a tall, cool glass of "F**k You". Step away from the Prozac and Xanax, and Drink Up, Bitches. Refills are on the house...

Anthony Beal

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

Louis Nizer

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation -- veneer isn't worth anything.

George Washington Carver

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

James Gibbons Huneker

Life in part is what you make of it... in parting it is what it makes out of you.

Janice Markowitz

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold Toynbee

Your body's just a vehicle, transporting the soul.It's what's inside of people, is beauty to behold.

Damian Marley

What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story, And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

John Cleese

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Thomas Hughes

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!

Gary Ryan Blair

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Helen Rowland

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone de Beauvoir

I'm tired, it's raining, and I am not a waterlily.

Russell Page

The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.

Norman Thomas

The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others.

Dr. June Singer

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Viktor Frankl

It's better to be in love than to watch it.

Matt Dugan

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Margaret Drabble

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Thornton Wilder

I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that sort of attention in my real life. Because in my real life, I'm this weird, dorky girl who just hangs out with her dog.

Alicia Silverstone

Did you know destruction of the soul is not the ending to life: Fear not of the Antichrist.

Damian Marley

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.

Dr. Paul Tournier

Sometimes you're the window; Sometimes you're the bug.

Mark Knopfler

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Jackie Robinson

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.

Lucretia Mott

Dreaming is not enough. You have to go a step further and use your imagination to visualize, with intent! Forget everything you've ever been taught, and believe it will happen, just as you imagined it. That is the secret. That is the mystery of life.

Christine Anderson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

Rachel Carson

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Leon Trotsky

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Frederic Bastiat

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

Shinichi Suzuki

Life becomes precious and more special to us when we look for the little everyday miracles and get excited about the privileges of simply being human.

Tim Hansel

Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

John Wanamaker

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.

Laura Swenson

She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.

Louis Untermeyer

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.

Dante Alighieri

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

George Bataille

The longer I live the more I need to learn.

Helene Lagerberg