- All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Horace Walpole
- I had no blood relatives till I made some.
Andy Dick
- I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
George Lucas
- You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
- Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
Bob Marley
- Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
- The best path through life is the highway.
Henri Frederic Amiel
- Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
- A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
Robert Frost
- Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
- Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
- What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer
- 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
- The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Henri Nouwen
- What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
- A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William James
- Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Havelock Ellis
- Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci
- 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.
Don Miguel Ruiz
- An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Horace
- No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
William Feather
- There is just one life for each of us: our own.
Euripides
- Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
- I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
Grandma Moses
- The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
Abraham Cahan
- Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
- Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
Soren Kierkegaard
- Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
- Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
- With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.
Stephen Hawking
- I bear a charmed life.
William Shakespeare
- Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.
Jean Paul
- Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
- The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Anais Nin
- Art is the proper task of life.
Friedrich Nietzsche
- I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
Isaac Asimov
- To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
- Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
John F. Kennedy
- Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles
- Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
Woody Allen
- The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
- Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee Williams
- When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
- 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
- The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.