"A life without cause is a life without effect."--Barbarella
"A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit."--D. Elton Trueblood
"A man has not lived until he has almost died. For those who have fought, life has a flavor the protected will never know."--A Vietnam Veteran
"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."-Charles Darwin
"A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."--Albert Einstein
"Add life to your years, not years to your life."--Unknown
“Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.”-- Susanna Moodie
“All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”--Sydney Smith
“And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.” Grandma Moses
“And so I sit here thinking how my life would be, if I was (sic) more like someone else & a little less like me.
"Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, & in the right way; this is not easy. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." --Aristotle
"As you wander on through life, sister/brother, whatever be your goal, keep your eye on the donut, and not upon the hole."--Sign in the Mayflower Coffee Shop, Chicago
"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."--William Jones
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."--Phillips Brooks
"Believe that life is worth living & your belief will help create the fact." -William James
"Carpe Diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think."--Horace
“Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.”--Häfiz
“Contrary to popular belief, it is not the first impression that is most important. It’s the one million & first impressions that count. Your ability to have integrity in every area of life is invaluable.”
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."--Harold Whitman
"Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin."--Grace Hansen
“Don’t go through life---grow through life.”--Unknown
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path & leave a trail."- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.” Leo Buscaglia
"Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out of it alive."--Elbert Hubbard
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words.” Marcel Marceau
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."--Teddy Roosevelt
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. & the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”-- Erica Jong
“Each of us assume responsibility for our actions.”---Hugh W. Pinnock
"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things." --Antonio Smith
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity." --Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"Every man dies. Not every man truly lives."--Braveheart
"Everyone must row with the oars he has."--English Proverb
"Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment -- this day --is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day --each moment of this day -- a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity." Dan Custer
"Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you." -Richard Bach
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life & repeast to yourself, the most comforting words of all: 'This too shall pass.'"--Ann Landers
"For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever."- Laura Swenson
"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss." - Jonathan Larson
"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying."--Robert Herrick
“Giving, whether it be of time, labor, affection, advice, gifts, or whatever, is one of lifes greatest pleasures.” Rebecca Russell
"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."--Elbert Hubbard
"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends! Hath he not always treasures, always friends, The good great man? Three treasures,--love and light, And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath; And three firm friends, more sure than day and night,--Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."--Will Rogers
"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel." - John Churton Collins
"Here is a test to find out whether your mission in life is complete. If you're alive, it isn't."--Richard Bach, from the book "Illusions"
”How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving & tolerant of the weak & strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.” George W. Carver
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”--Chief Seattle
"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another." -Thomas Jefferson
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things that I can do, any kindness I can show a fellow being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.” Stephen Grellet
"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."- Jack Handey
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."--Agatha Christie
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."--Frank Herbert
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, & which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves."- E. M. Forster
“I think life is really hard sometimes. It's not easy to wake up every day & go through what you go through. But the beautiful moments that you share with people that you love, or even experience alone, are worth all of the pain & sorrow. Those moments should be cherished, & I think that's what music is all about - to remind people of the beautiful moments that are in everybody's life." Charlie Haden
"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, 1854
"If I had to live my life again, I would make a rule to read some poetry & listen to some music at least once a week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use." --Charles Darwin
“If you always run from what you’re scared of, you’re gonna miss out on a whole lot of stuff in life.”
"If you haven't got all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want."--Anonymous
“If you live every day like it was the last then you know the true meaning of fulfillment.”
"If you make every game a life & death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."- Dean Smith
"Imagine all the people living in the world agree, you may say I am a dreamer. But I am not the only one. I hope some day you will join us & the world will live as one" -John Lennon
“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
"In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive & deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long & arduous quest after Truth."--Mahatma Gandhi
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It Goes On!"--Robert Frost
“Is life not a 100 times too short for us to bore ourselves?”--Friedrich Nietzche
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains & slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"---Patrick Henry
"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it." --W. Somerset Maugham
”It is never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.”--Nancy Thayer
"It's noble to be good. It's nobler to teach others to be good, and less trouble."- Mark Twain
"It is not length of life, but depth of life."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do, that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.”--Henry Ward Beecher
“It’s not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It’s what you do with your life that counts.”--Millard Fuller
"It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?"--Steve Forbert
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from 1 step of success to another; forming new wishes & seeing them gratified.”--Samuel Johnson
“Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards.”-Soren Kierkegaard
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.”--Bernice Johnson Reagon
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." -Josh Billings
"Life consists of problems, living is solving those problems. You should live life to its fullest & never look back on the past." --Unknown
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.” George Bernard Shaw
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts & happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”--Mark Twain
“Life has 2 rules: 1) Never quit! 2) Always remember rule Number 1.”-Duke Ellington
“Life is a big canvas, throw all the paint on it you can.”--Danny Kaye
"Life is a continual exercise in the endless pursuit of perfection; we are driven so that we are forever marked with the curse of ambition and it may mean either our ascension to greatness, or our total self-destruction."--Dr. Elsie Chavous
“Life is a great surprise. I don’t see why death should be an even greater one.” Vladmir Nabokov
“Life is a journey, not a destination.”--Unknown
“Life is a series of natural & spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”--Unknown
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel; & a comedy for those who think." - Chinese Proverb
"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."- Charlie Chaplin
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment & making the best of it, ithout knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.”--Gilda Radner
“Life is but reflection of our projection.”--Fr. Brain Cavanaugh
"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up." -Anononymous
"Life is like a mine field, you must walk through it one step at a time, but with imagination. Once you shut down your imagination & step in the wrong direction, things blow up." --Ty Howard
“Life is like a piano...what you get out of it depends on how you play it.”--Unknown
"Life is like a tin of sardines. We're, all of us, looking for the key."- Beyond the Fringe
“Life is mortal...but its spirit & beauty shall no perish...it will be transmitted unto your heart...& there it will live & comfort you.”--Unknown
"Life is not a 'brief candle'. It is a spendid torch that I want to make burn as brightly as possible before handing on to future generations."--George Bernard Shaw
“Life is not a struggle, its a wiggle.”--Unknown
"Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away."
“Life is not the candle or the wick, its the burning.”--Unknown
“Life is pain...anyone who says differently is selling something.”--The Princess Bride
“Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what’s happening out there. It’s how you take it that counts.”--Unknown
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?"--J. M. Usteri. 1763-1827.
"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty & gradually approach eighteen." - Mark Twain
“LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE: Too often we don’t realize what we have until it is gone; Too often we wait too late to say “I’m sorry-- I was wrong” Sometimes it seems we hurt the 1s we hold dearest to our hearts; & we allow foolish things to tear our lives apart. Far too many ties we let unimportant things into our minds; & then its usually too late to see what makes us blind. So be sure that you let people know how much they mean to you; Take that time to say the words before your time is through. Be sure that you appreciate everything you’ve got; & be thankful for the l little things in life that mean a lot.”--Unknown
“Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.”--Christian Gellert
"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be."-Jeremy Schwartz
“Live out of your imagination, not your history."-- Stephen Covey
“Live your life as an exclamation, not an explanation.”--Unknown
“Live your todays so that you can live with yourself tomorrow.”-- Unknown
“Lives that flash in the sunshine, & lives that are born in tears receive their hue from circumstances.”--Harriet A. Jacobs
"Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way."- Edna Ferber
“Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms & legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. & therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy & colorful & lively"--Mel Brooks
“Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food." Peace Pilgrim
“Make it a rule of life never to regret & never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing.”--Katherine Mansfield
“Man is born to live & not prepared to live.”Boris Pasternak
"May you live all the days of your life."--Jonathan Swift
“Mistakes are a fact of life It is the response to error that counts." - Nikki Giovanni
“Most of life’s shadows are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” Ralph W. Emerson
"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."- Louis Adamic
"... my life has been a long series of interwoven relationships, both good & bad...My relationships are my major source of stimulation, causing me to remain open, curious, eager to learn & challenged by change." - Dr. Leo Buscaglia
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”--Oprah Winfrey
"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
"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired & rightly lived if you take it bravely & 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 & lose many a battle." Annie Besant
"Never say goodbye when you still want to try. Never give up when you still feel you can take it. Never say you no longer love a person when you can't let go.”
"No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today."- Brendan Francis
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." -Socrates
"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all of your energies on a limited set of targets." Nido Qubein
"Nothing should be prized more highly than the value of each day."--Goethe
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: the soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and cometh from afar. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory, do we come from God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy."-- William Wordsworth
"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough."-Seneca
“Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplify, simplify.”--Henry David Thoreau
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”-- Marcus Aurelious Antonius
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King,Jr.
"Our workaday lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated." --G. Richard Rieger
“Over there is your life waiting to be lived.”
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within. -Elizabeth Kubler Ross
“People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life....I think that what we're really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being & reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell
“People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, & yet they pass by themselves without wondering.” St. Augustine
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." - George Bernard Shaw
"Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life."- Judith Viorst
"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
"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life." - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, & things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! & the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul." -Henry W. Longfellow
"That best portion of a good man's life,--is little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."--William Wordsworth. 1770-1850
"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."--Emily Dickinson
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, not touched. but are felt in the heart."-Helen Keller
"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." --Alfred Adler
“The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it,but no one wants to go there now.” James Baldwin
"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."- Albert Einstein
“The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well." - H. T. Leslie
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James
"The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it." -Moliere
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." - Sir. Winston Churchill
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross & which to burn." - David Russell
"The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."--Saint Augustine
"The longer the walk, the farther you come" - Metallica
“The man who dares to waste 1 hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles Darwin
“The most important journey you may make in life is meeting people halfway.”--Unknown
"The most important things in life aren't things." - Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."--e. e. cummings
“The only real failure in life is one not learned from.”
"The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post."- L. Thomas Holdcroft
“The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift that’s why we call it the present.”
"The past is never there when you try to go back. It exists, but only in memory. To pretend otherwise is to invite a mess."- Chris Cobbs
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.” Cyril Connolly
“The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.”Irving Ball
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne
"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
"The purpose of life is to produce another generation to figure it out."- J. H. Goldfuss
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor." - Vince Lombardi
"The secret of health for both mind & body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely & earnestly."--Buddha
“The secret to life is enjoying the passage of time.” James Taylor
"The things that count most in life are usually the things that cannot be counted."--Bernard Meltzer
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis
“The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives & forget what’s important & what’s not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. & as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what’s going on outside.”--Robert Stuberg
“The unexamined life is not worth living. The unlived life is not worth examining.”--Unknown
“The very purpose of our existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves w/ the appalling things that other people think of us.” Quentin Crisp
“[about the past]”...the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it” The Lion King
"The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results. -Michael LeBeuf
“There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There are no ordinary moments.”-Dan Millman
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is."--Albert Einstein
“There are ten or twenty basic truths, & life is the process of discovering them over & over & over." - David Nichols
“There are 2 things to aim at in life: 1st, to get what you want, & after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the 2nd.” Logan P. Smith
“There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve.”--Mike Leavitt
“There is a very fine line between loving life & being greedy for it.” Maya Angelou
“There is more to life than increasing its speed.”--Mahatma Gandhi
"There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life."--Frederico Fellini
“There is no pleasure in life so great as doing what others say you can't." - fortune cookie
"There's no limit to life, unless you limit your life." - Courtney Webb
"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity." --Douglas MacArthur
"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."--Alexander Woollcott
“There is not a single condition of life or one hour's experience but what is beneficial to all those who make it their study, & aim to improve upon the experience they gain.”---Brigham Young
“There is only 1 success..to be able to live your life in your own way.” Christopher Morley
“There must be more to life than sitting there wondering if there is more to life.”
“This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind...let it be something good.”
"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." -William James
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”--George Santayana
“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”-- André Gide
"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived." --Captain Jean-Luc Picard
“Time is not a line, but a series of now points.”--Taisen Deshimaru
“Time is the beauty of the road being long.”--Blues Traveler
“Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.”--H.L. Mencken
“Time is the longest distance between 2 places.”--Tennesse Williams
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”--Theophrastus
"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."--Henry Van Dyke
“Time--our youth--it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.”--Helen H Santmyer
"To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as...to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead."--Og Mandino
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals-this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.”--Sir William Osler
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."---Buddha
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, & refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable; & wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars & birds, to babes & sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasion, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden & unconscious grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”--William Henry Channing
“To live life completely, you have to dance like no one's watching & love like its never going to hurt.”-Unknown
"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right." - Confucius
"To reach a great height a person needs to have great depth." - Anonymous
“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, & to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”--Wallace Stevens
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." - Mark Twain
"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."--Stephen Covey
"To love & win is the best thing. To love & lose, the next best." --William Makepeace Thackeray
“Today is the 1st day of the rest of your life.”--Unknown
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”--James F. Bymes
"Too many folks go through life running from something that isn't after them."--Anonymous
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”--Harper Lee
"Until you know that life is interesting--and find it so--you haven't found your soul."--Fisher, Geoffrey
“Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”--M. Scott Peck
“Upon awaking in the morning, say a little thank you for this amazing experience.”--Unknown
"Use it or lose it."--Jimmy Connors
“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.”--Tracy Chapman
"We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'" - Dr. Leo Buscaglia
“We are that which activates the body.”--Peace Pilgrim
“We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are... Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it; fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself."-- R.J. Baughan
“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind---or to make it the last.”--John F. Kennedy
“We make a living by what we GET, we make a life by what we GIVE.”--Unknown
“We must use time creatively, & forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.” Nelson Mandela
“We think in generalities, but we live in detail.”--Alfred North Whitehead
“What broke in a man when he can bring himself to kill another?”-Alan Paton
“What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.”--Oliver Wilson
“What you achieve through the journey of life is not as important as who you become.”--Unknown
"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."--Henry Van Dyke
"When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"- Homer Simpson
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."--Cherokee Expression
“Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge."--Vaclav Havel
“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”--Pat Conroy
“Yesterday was the past, tomorrow is the future, today is a gift, that’s why they call it the present.”--Unknown
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope & achievement. You are here to enrich the world, & you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."--Woodrow Wilson
"You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."--Shira Tehrani
"You cannot take charge of the present if you are busy reliving the setbacks of the past." - Newman & Berkowitz
"You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can decide how you're going to live now."--Joan Baez
“You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”---Ruth Smeltzer
"You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."--Henry Drummond
“Youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, & old age a regret.”--Benjamin Disraeli
“Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are old as your doubt your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.”--Luella F. Phean