Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

life

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

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

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

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

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

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

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

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

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is no wealth but life.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Children make your life important.

Dreams are necessary to life.

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.

I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

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.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

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

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

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

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

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

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

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

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

Very little is needed to make a happy life it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

I bear a charmed life.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

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

Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

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

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Life well spent is long.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

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

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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

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

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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.

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

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

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

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that?

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

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

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

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

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.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

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

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

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.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

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

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

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

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

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

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.

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

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Live the life you've dreamed.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

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

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

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

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

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

Life is to be entered upon with courage.

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

What we play is life.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.

Life is but thought.

No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

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

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

The lie is a condition of life.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

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

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

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

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

What you get is a living, what you give is a life.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Where there is love there is life.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Love is the greatest refreshment in life.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Art is the proper task of life.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

I do not regret one moment of my life.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

In married life three is company and two none.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

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

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

My life is my message.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.

Life is too short to work so hard.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

May you live all the days of your life.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

The less routine the more life.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.