- We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
- Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
- Growth is the only evidence of life.
John Henry Newman
- Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
- Life is a lot like jazz… it’s best when you improvise.
George Gershwin
- Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Jonathan Sacks
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Havelock Ellis
- The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
Scott Hamilton
- Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac
- Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Peter De Vries
- He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan
- Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Prem Rawat
- Remember when life’s path is steep to keep your mind even.
Horace
- The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
William Hazlitt
- Life is a work in progress.
Jeff Rich
- Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin
- The less routine the more life.
Amos Bronson Alcott
- Life is too short to work so hard.
Vivien Leigh
- What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
- Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
- When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
Sydney J. Harris
- We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill
- To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
Jerry Seinfeld
- I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
- What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
- Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
Samuel Butler
- Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.
Corita Kent
- The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein
- If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Saint Augustine
- Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry
- Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller
- A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
- Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
- Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
Audre Lorde
- Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.
Zhuangzi
- Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur
- Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca
- Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
Morihei Ueshiba
- 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
- Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
- Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.
William Christopher Handy
- Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne
- The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller
- Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
- The difficulty in life is the choice.
George A. Moore
- Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert