- We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
William Osler
- Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
- I want to live my life, not record it.
Jackie Kennedy
- Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
Swami Sivananda
- 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
- Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger
- You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
- Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Lindbergh
- Life is a horizontal fall.
Jean Cocteau
- Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Alexis Carrel
- 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
- Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
George Whitefield
- Life is a DNA software system.
Craig Venter
- We pass through this world but once.
Stephen Jay Gould
- Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
- Life’s more amusing than we thought.
Andrew Lang
- I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.
Emile Zola
- The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell
- The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Edward Fitzgerald
- It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
Peter Diamandis
- All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum
- The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Alfred Adler
- To know nothing is the happiest life.
Desiderius Erasmus
- Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
e. e. cummings
- Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh
- I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
- I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Ursula Andress
- Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Richard L. Evans
- Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Vladimir Nabokov
- 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
- Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
- I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.
Seamus Heaney
- A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
Elizabeth Gaskell
- In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
Jakob Bohme
- I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry
- If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.
John Clare
- Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
- He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.
Tertullian
- Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.
Theodor W. Adorno
- Variety’s the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
William Cowper
- The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
Helen Hayes
- Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Ugo Betti
- Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
- Life itself is the proper binge.
Julia Child
- Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry