2016-02-16

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

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.     Buddha

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.              Will Smith

Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.       Sai Baba

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.              Erma Bombeck

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life define yourself.              Harvey Fierstein

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

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

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.               John Burroughs

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

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

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

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

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

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

The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.   Eminem

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

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

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

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

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.               Lao Tzu

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.        Cary Grant

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.    Albert Einstein

I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.                Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.           Anton Chekhov

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.              Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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.      E. B. White

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.       Simone de Beauvoir

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.         William Wallace

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

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

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

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

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

Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.                Max de Pree

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

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on.    Carl Sandburg

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.     Buddha

Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.    Horace

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.     Miguel Angel Ruiz

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

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

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

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

Don’t go through life, grow through life.                Eric Butterworth

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Joseph Campbell

It is not length of life, but depth of life.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. Henry David Thoreau

Don’t let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.               Richard L. Evans

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t. Richard Bach

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

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

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.              Stephen Covey

It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.     Philip Green

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

My life is my message.  Mahatma Gandhi

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

I love those who yearn for the impossible.           Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I love life because what more is there?  Anthony Hopkins

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

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

Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou

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.                Marie Curie

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.           John F. Kennedy

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.               John F. Kennedy

I do not regret one moment of my life.  Lillie Langtry

Our life is what our thoughts make it.     Marcus Aurelius

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.    Socrates

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

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.      Jean-Paul Sartre

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.             Scott Hamilton

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

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.         Erich Fromm

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. Eleanor Roosevelt

I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.   Charles M. Schulz

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.                Wayne Dyer

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.              Wayne Dyer

Everything in life is luck.                Donald Trump

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.              George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May you live all the days of your life.      Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

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

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.         Marcus Aurelius

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.      Seneca

Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.               Mel Brooks

When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’       Sydney J. Harris

People living deeply have no fear of death.         Anais Nin

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.      Leonardo da Vinci

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

Life in abundance comes only through great love.            Elbert Hubbard

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

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.                Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.  Robert Louis Stevenson

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

While there’s life, there’s hope.                Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.  James M. Barrie

Life is half spent before we know what it is.        George Herbert

Life must be lived as play.            Plato

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.   Arthur Miller

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

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

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.   Isaac Bashevis Singer

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.  e. e. cummings

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

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

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.               Isaac Asimov

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.  Robert Byrne

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

The greatest pleasure of life is love.        Euripides

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

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

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

While we are postponing, life speeds by.              Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is just one life for each of us: our own.      Euripides

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.                H. L. Mencken

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

Life is never easy for those who dream.                Robert James Waller

Life is too short to work so hard.               Vivien Leigh

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

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

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

Life well spent is long.    Leonardo da Vinci

If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.    William J. Clinton

Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.        Fran Lebowitz

Life isn’t a matter of milestones, but of moments.            Rose Kennedy

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.       Lauryn Hill

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

Life is wasted on the living.          Douglas Adams

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.             Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.         Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

There is no wealth but life.          John Ruskin

Life is largely a matter of expectation.    Horace

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

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

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

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.               Woody Allen

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

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.    Jean Paul

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

What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.                Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.   William Christopher Handy

I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.               Ursula Andress

No man is a failure who is enjoying life. William Feather

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

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.            Theodor Adorno

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

Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. Dave Barry

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.     Hugh Leonard

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

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving. Jerry Seinfeld

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

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

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.                John Henry Newman

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.       Jean Anouilh

To know nothing is the happiest life.       Desiderius Erasmus

To be free is to have achieved your life.                Tennessee Williams

Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. William Cowper

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

Life is but thought.          Sara Teasdale

Life itself is the proper binge.     Julia Child

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.             Horace Walpole

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.                Barbara Kingsolver

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

The less routine the more life.   Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.       Abraham Cahan

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.          Henry Adams

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

What we play is life.        Louis Armstrong

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

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

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.      Brendan Gill

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

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.            William Ellery Channing

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.            Robert Herrick

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. Karl A. Menninger

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.               Karen Horney

Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.          George Gershwin

I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live.            Judy Collins

I had no blood relatives till I made some.              Andy Dick

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

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade… And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.              Ron White

Where there is love there is life.               Mahatma Gandhi

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!   Bob Marley

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.  Michael Jordan

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.         Jim Rohn

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.         Buddha

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’  Muhammad Ali

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.                Albert Schweitzer

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

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

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.    Swami Vivekananda

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.        Dalai Lama

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.       Steve Jobs

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.       Abraham Lincoln

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.             Confucius

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.    Joel Osteen

I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.        Michael Jordan

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

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

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.   George Washington

Character develops itself in the stream of life.    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.          Steve Jobs

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live my life as if there isn’t and die to find out there is.       Albert Camus

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.  Thomas Jefferson

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

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.     Dr. Seuss

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

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’   Martin Luther King, Jr.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.               John Lennon

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

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.   Helen Keller

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.           Martin Luther King, Jr.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.            Leo Buscaglia

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.              Khalil Gibran

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.                Khalil Gibran

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.          Carl Jung

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.       Anatole France

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.   Pope Paul VI

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.    Zig Ziglar

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!         Ronald Reagan

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.      Charles R. Swindoll

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.                Buddha

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.   Albert Einstein

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

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

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.              Buddha

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.          Booker T. Washington

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

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.               Earl Nightingale

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.                Bruce Lee

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.            Melody Beattie

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.   Walter Anderson

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.                Albert Einstein

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.           Plato

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.          Steve Jobs

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.                Henry Ford

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.     Tecumseh

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

The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Without music, life would be a mistake.                Friedrich Nietzsche

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

People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.            Jim Morrison

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.                Buddha

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.         Thomas Jefferson

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

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.     Maya Angelou

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.                Khalil Gibran

You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.               Keith Sweat

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

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

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.        Rita Rudner

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.               Martin Luther King, Jr.

It’s the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they’re gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it’s my turn to leave.     Tupac Shakur

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

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

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

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

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

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.           Buddha

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.      Dalai Lama

Without health life is not life it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.           Buddha

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.     Muhammad Ali

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.                Oscar Wilde

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.    Og Mandino

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.      Lao Tzu

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

Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.          Isaac Watts

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.       Ayn Rand

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.  Theodore Roosevelt

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Golda Meir

Don’t Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life. Miguel Angel Ruiz

Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid.             John Wayne

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.         Muhammad Ali

Life’s Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.           Benjamin Franklin

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.          Barack Obama

You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.   Steve Jobs

All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.        Walt Disney

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

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.                Plato

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

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

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.    Albert Ellis

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.   John Wayne

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.           Steve Jobs

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

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

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

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.           William Shakespeare

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.           Richard Bach

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

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.         Kevyn Aucoin

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

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. Zig Ziglar

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

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.    Maya Angelou

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.           Steve Jobs

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

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.           Bill Cosby

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.          Tony Robbins

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

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

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

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

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.                Mark Twain

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

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.    Ashley Smith

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.             Marcus Aurelius

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.          Margaret J. Wheatley

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

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.                Mother Teresa

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.     Ralph Marston

Each person must live their life as a model for others.     Rosa Parks

I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can’t truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.    Zig Ziglar

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.          Socrates

There are four questions of value in life… What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.       Johnny Depp

Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.         Zig Ziglar

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.               Jimi Hendrix

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.                Audrey Hepburn

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.                Muhammad Ali

I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don’t judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free.          Angelina Jolie

You change your life by changing your heart.      Max Lucado

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.      Eleanor Roosevelt

I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.    Muhammad Ali

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

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.   George Bernard Shaw

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.         Baltasar Gracian

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

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

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.      Winston Churchill

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.     Dalai Lama

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.      Khalil Gibran

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.  Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.  Dalai Lama

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

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.              Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.                Napoleon Hill

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.             Joel Osteen

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.       W. Clement Stone

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

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.       Hugh Sidey

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

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

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.      Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.         Hugh Mackay

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.  John F. Kennedy

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.        Marie Curie

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.                Nelson Mandela

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.                C. S. Lewis

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

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.       Winston Churchill

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.           Helen Keller

I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one’s life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.                David Rockefeller

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

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

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.           John F. Kennedy

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.           Helen Keller

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.       Wayne Dyer

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

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.             Carl Sandburg

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.              Winston Churchill

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.                Thomas Jefferson

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‘O God, forgive me,’ or ‘Help me.’        Billy Graham

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.                Aristotle

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.        Marilyn Monroe

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

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

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.    Angelina Jolie

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

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.          Mahatma Gandhi

Life is hard it’s harder if you’re stupid.    John Wayne

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.            Mahatma Gandhi

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.               Steve Jobs

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

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

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.      Joan Lunden

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.      Anais Nin

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.           Henry Ford

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.         Maya Angelou

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.              Ronald Reagan

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

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.           Maya Angelou

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.       Lucille Ball

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.             Henry David Thoreau

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I’m with you kid. Let’s go.’   Maya Angelou

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.                Chris Rock

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

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.   John Lennon

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

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

We have one life it soon will be past what we do for God is all that will last.          Muhammad Ali

Life is hard. After all, it kills you. Katharine Hepburn

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.        Ronald Reagan

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.                Steve Jobs

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

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.  Mahatma Gandhi

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.     

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