Life
I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt
Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come. - Albert Barnes
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another, and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it. - James M. Barrie
We didn't come over on the same ship, but were all in the same boat. - Bernard M. Baruch
The goal is the same: life itself; and the price is the same; life itself. - James Agee
Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain. - William Adams Brown
The ladder of life is full of splinters, but they always prick the hardest when we're sliding down. - William L. Brownell
For man there are only three important events: birth, life and death; but he is unaware of being born, he suffers when he dies, and he forgets to live. - Jean De La Bruyere
A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated. - Confucius
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler
The truly important things in life -- love, beauty, and one's own uniqueness - are constantly being overlooked - Pablo Casals
Variety is the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper
I envy the man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown. - Euripides
Life is too short to be little. - Benjamin Disraeli
Life is like an echo. We get from it what we put in to it and, just like an echo, it often gives us much more. - Boris Lauer-Leonardi
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end. - Roger L'Estrange
Consult the dead upon things that were, but the living only on things that are. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." - John 8:12
Oh Lord, you give us everything at the price of fatigue! - Leonardo da Vinci
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. - H.L. Mencken
The herd may graze where it pleases or stampede where it pleases, but he who lives the adventurous life will remain unafraid when he finds himself alone. - Raymond B. Fosdick
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. - John Quincy Adams
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
The state of life is most happy when superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting. - Plutarch
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy, I mean that if you are happy you will be good. - Bertrand Russell
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. - Samuel Butler
That which is bitter to endure may be sweet to remember. - Thomas Fuller
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. - Friedrich Nietzsche
While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. - Sir Winston Churchill
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. - George Bernard Shaw
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. - Thomas Jones
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. - Hubert H. Humphrey
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. - Henry David Thoreau
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life. - Dr. Joyce Brothers
The time to win a fight is before it starts. - Frederick W. Lewis
All is well with him who is beloved by his neighbors. - George Herbert
True generosity requires more of us than kindly impulse. Above all it requires imagination - the capacity to see people in all their perplexities and needs, and to know how to expend ourselves effectively for them. - I.A.R. Wylie
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main… any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. - John Donne
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in a awful hurry. - John Jensen
The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination. - Louis Kronenberger
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara ever turned light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment, of trusting your instincts, of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure. - Richard Iannelli
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look. To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of arts. - Henry David Thoreau
If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor- poor in happiness, poor in all that makes life worth living. - Herbert N. Casson
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. - William Cowper
The glory of the star, the glory of the sun - we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven. - Phillips Brooks
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. - Mark Twain
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? - Marcel Marceau
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. - William Faulkner
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. - Zora Neale Hurston
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda
The average person thinks he isn't. - Father Larry Lorenzoni
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
I have three personal ideals. One to do the day's work well and not bother about tomorrow. It has been urged that this is not a satisfactory ideal. It is; and there is not one which the student can carry with him into practice with greater effect. To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had - to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself. - Sir William Osler
Infinite riches are all around you if you will open your mental eyes and behold the treasure house of infinity within you. There is a gold mine within you from which you can extract everything you need to live life gloriously, joyously, and abundantly. - Joseph Murphy
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. - Alfred North Whitehead
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. - Mary Antin, 1912
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. - Henri Bergson
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. - Alan Cohen
A person needs at intervals to separate from family and companions and go to new places. One must go without familiars in order to be open to influences, to change. - Katharine Butler Hathaway
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. - Washington Irving
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin
Things do not change, we change. - Henry David Thoreau
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that. - Gertrude Stein
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. - Ruth Benedict
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. - Ursula K. LeGuin
There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. - Theodore Rubin
Life is a successon of lessons, which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten. - Robert Fulghum
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. - Bertrand Russell, Education and the Social Order
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting. - Gladys Taber, Stillmeadow Sampler
Contrary to the ecologists, nature does not stand still and does not maintain the kind of "equilibrium" that guarantees the survival of any particular species - least of all the survival of her greatest and most fragile product: man. - Ayn Rand
Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind]. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of [people]. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, And I too suffer. This has been my life; I found it worth living. - Bertrand Russell
It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. - Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique, 1963
No one worth possessing can be quite possessed. - Sara Teasdale
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
There must be more to life than having everything. - Maurice Sendak
Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life. - Germaine Greer
This is my letter to the world, that never wrote to me, the simple news that Nature told, with tender majesty. Her message is committed, to hands I cannot see; for love of her, sweet countrymen, judge tenderly of me. - Emily Dickinson
If you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. - Sioux proverb
The great business of man is to improve his mind, and govern his manners; all other projects and pursuits, whether in our power to compass or not, are only amusements. - Pliny
People who laugh actually live longer than those who don’t laugh. Few persons realize that health actually varies according to the among of laughter. - James J. Walsh
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. - George Washington Carver
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. - David Starr Jordan
Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day. - Dalai Lama
It should be our purpose in life to see that each of us makes such a contribution as will enable us to say that we, individually and collectively, are a part of the answer to the world problem and not part of the problem itself. - Andrew Cordier
The world is so filled with interesting things to do that the longest human life could not exhaust more than a small fraction of them. - Frank Gaines
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. - General Omar Bradley
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon--instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Carnegie, Dale
I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Etienne de Grellet
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, That myth is more potent than history, 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. - Fulghum, Robert
It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding. - Elton John, The Lion King Soundtrack
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us. - Marden, Orison Swett
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live you life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice. - Native American Proverb
This life is yours: Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. - Schutz, Susan Polis
They lied to you, sold you ideas of good and evil, gave you distrust of your body and shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization. - Charles Donaldson
Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life. - Seneca
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The path of life has many crossroads, and at each one it's difficult to say goodbye and go our own separate ways, choosing the direction that is right for each of us. But the memory of being together will always remain, and there is always the chance that our paths will cross again. - Yee, Donna
I am a part of all that I have met. - Lord Tennyson
The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. - Edward Gibbon
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. - Ayn Rand
The life that is unexamined is not worth living. - Plato
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. - Blaise Pascal
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. - William Shakespeare, "MacBeth"
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel!in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! - William Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe. - Blaise Pascal
Life is simplified when there is one center; one reason, one motivation, one direction and purpose. - Jean Fleming
Begin to make the kind of investment of personal time which will assure that those who come after us will live as well. - Charles W. Bray III
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. - Blaise Pascal
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Women was God's second mistake. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. - Bruno Jasienski
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. - George Bernard Shaw
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back. - Turkish proverb
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye
Wine is bottled poetry. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Gentlemen, - Farewell, and take with you into the struggle the watchword of the good old Roman - Aequanimitas. - Sir William Osler
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. - Henry David Thoreau
Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. - Albert Camus
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him. - Voltaire
Against boredom even the gods contend in vain. - Friedrich Nietzsche
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. - Goethe
Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. - Goethe
Character develops itself in the stream of life. - Goethe
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. - Tim Robbins
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. - George Bernard Shaw
We are enobled by what we admire; we are known by what we honor. {former JFK Speechwriter - quote from a 1999 MSNBC interview} - Richard Goodwin
You never can begin to live until you dare to die. - Henry Van Dyke
The man who follows a crowd will never be followed by a crowd. - R. S. Donnell
Whatever it be, every fortune is to be overcome by bearing it. {Aeneid} - Virgil
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours. - Leo Buscaglia
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art. - Carrie Fisher
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life? - William Wordsworth
The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. - Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour. - Henry David Thoreau
The only wealth is life. - Henry David Thoreau
If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for. - Henry David Thoreau
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. - Henry David Thoreau
God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the net. - Swedish proverb
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel. - C.S. Lewis
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. - Henry Ward Beecher
To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one. - Jack Kornfield {Seeking the Heart of Wisdom}
La vie humaine commence de l'autre côté du désespoir. {Human life begins on the other side of despair}. - Jean-Paul Sartre ["Les Mouches", III:2}
The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree. - Charles R. Swindoll
It is easy to laugh; it is so easy to hurt; it takes strength to be kind and gentle. - Anonymous
I want to know God's thoughts. The rest are details. - Albert Einstein
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. - Maya Angelou
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." - Maya Angelou
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. {from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings} - Maya Angelou
Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. - Salvador Dali
The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but by his ordinary life. - Blaise Pascal
All of the significant battles are waged within the self. - Sheldon Kopp
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. - Benjamin Franklin
Leisure is being allowed to do nothing. - G.K. Chesterton
The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won. - Maltbie D. Babcock
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James
Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. - Dag Hammarskjold
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle. - Annie Besant
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make a difference that you lived at all. - Leo Rosten
To live is so startling it leaves time for little else. - Emily Dickinson
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right. - Mary Kay Ash
Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. {from "Felix Holt, The Radical," ch. 48, 1866} - George Eliot
It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke
Bloom where you are planted. - Nancy Reader Campion's Aunt Grace
Pleasure's a sin and sometimes sin is a pleasure. - Lord Byron
He is always breaking the law. He broke the law when he was born. His parents were not married. - George Bernard Shaw
I used to sit on the banks with a raft and watch the water roll lazily by. One day I pushed my raft into the shallows of the water and found the water moved swifter than I thought. My raft was actually a boat. Then, after some time, I rowed my little boat into deeper water. There were great storms, mighty winds, tremendous waves, and sometimes I felt so alone. But I have noticed my little rowboat is now a mighty ship manned by my friends and loved ones; and beautiful calm seas, warm sunny days, and nights filled with comfortable dreams always double after a storm. Now, I could never go back and sit on the bank. In fact, I search for deeper water. Such is life when lived. - B. D. Gulledge
All dressed up and nowhere to go. (1916) - William Allen White
Do as I say not do as I do. - John Selden
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which what they are not. - Giacomo Leopardi
How's about that then, guys and gals. - Jimmy Savile
God made the country and man made the town. - William Cowper
Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. - Christine Frankland
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times... Spare me from bitterness and from the sharp passions of unguarded moments. May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself. Lift up my eyes from the earth and let me not forget the uses of the stars. Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself. Let me not follow in the clamor of the world, but walk calmly in my path... And though age and infirmity overtake me and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still to be thankful for life and for time's oldest memories that are good and sweet, and may the evening's twilight find me gentle still. - Max Ehrmann
The strange thing is everyone is born with no intention to serve but to be served. - Chew Nai Chee
Man has his will - but woman has her way. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
It is helpful to know the proper way to behave, so one can decide whether or not to be proper. (from 'Ella Enchanted') - Gail Carson Levine
Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter DeVries
How simple it is to see that all the worry in the world cannot control the future. How simple it is to see that we can only be happy now. And that there will never be a time when it is not now. - Gerald Jampolsky
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. - Kahlil Gibran
The way not to live a monotonous life is to live for others. - Fulton J. Sheen
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. - Wendell Berry
Answer that you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. - Walt Whitman
Fear and love are the only two things that can manipulate the mind, to believing the unbelievable, in the dark. - Alison Cook
Life is what happens, after you make other plans. - Ralph Marston
May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowin' the 60-40 end of a proposition, money management, and knowin' yourself. - Walter Clyde "Puggy" Pearson
Live your life in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers
When you return to your boyhood town, you find it wasn't the town you longed for - it was your boyhood. - Earl Wilson
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. - G.K. Chesterton
We are all born originals - why is it that so many of us die copies? - Edward Young
One will not go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear. (originator of statement was Yamamoto Tsunetomo, a samurai who retired to life as a Buddhist monk after the death of his feudal lord Nabeshima Naoshige). - Nietzsche
The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have. (quoted by Carol Clurman in USA Weekend) - Anna Quindlen
Never hope to become great where stupid people congregate, Better to go alone, where wisdom's found and fairly known, then have those by your side whose emptiness provides - Nothing. © 2004 Michael Druck - Michael Druck
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once. (quoted by Susan Litwin in TV Guide) - Oprah Winfrey
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. - James Dean
The world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Sean O'Casey
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest. - Mark Twain
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. - W.H. Auden
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. - Penn Jillette
The lovesick, the betrayed and the jealous all smell alike. - Colette
Most people exist rather than choosing to live. Most people are too busy with life to live. - Matt Bunning
Life without companionship is a life without purpose. (from Arabian Sands) - Sir Wilfred Thesiger
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. - Dave Weinbaum
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein
So many centuries after the Creation, it is unlikely that anyone could find hitherto unknown lands of any value. (rejection of Christopher Columbus' proposal to sail west) - Spanish Royal Commission
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. - Multiple attributions