"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
"Life is a slow dance between death and desire."
"We have only one life, but if liven correctly, one is enough."
"Life is the prelude to eternity. Nature is the key to life."
"The first rule of life is to live."
"All who have lived have died, but not all who have died have lived."
"Oh if a man tried to take his time on earth
And prove before he died what a man's life could be worth
I wonder what would happen to this world." -Harry Chapin 1942-1981
"If there's anything half as much fun as being alive, I'd like to know what it is."
"Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow is only a vision. But today, well lived, makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope." -The Sanskrit
"What makes life worth living? To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad." --Searamouche
"The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be." --Paul Valery
"And they lived happily ever after ... but that's not the point. The point is, they lived." -Ever After, A Cinderella Story
"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it." -Henry Emerson Fosdick
"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it The Present." -Babatunde Olatunji
"We are here on Earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I do not know." -W. H. Auden
"Anything on earth you want to do is play. Anything on earth you have to do is work. Play will never kill you, work will. I never worked a day in my life." -Dr. Leila Denmark, 100, USA's oldest practicing physician.
"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around." -Henry David Thoreau
"Life is sexually transmitted."
"The gene pool could use a little chlorine."
"I like the knight life."
"Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life."
"Monday is the root of all evil."
"The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." -Horace Walpole
"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." -Carl Jung
"Let me play while you ponder,
Let me sing while you slumber,
Let me dance while you devour,
Let me love while you loiter,
Time is too short."
"One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion." -Anatol Rapoport
"You have given your life to become the person you are today. Was it worth it?"-- Richard Bach
"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
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."-- George Santayana
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."-- Oscar Wilde
"Life is mostly froth and bubbles-
Two things stand like stone-
Kindness in another's trouble-
Courage in your own."
"I need to take an emotional breath, step back, and remind myself who's actually in charge of my life." -Judith Knowlton
"Living if the only thing worth dying for."
"Life is like a river,
Flowing to the ocean.
But when the acid
Rain comes down,
The river is no more."
"You can't choose between life or death when your dealing with the in between." -Poltergeist
"Life's a movie, does anyone want to watch?"
"Life is what happens to you while your busy making other plans."
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Creeps at this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, A poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is herd no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, Full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing." -Shakespeare, soliloquy from MacBeth
"Life is not a puzzle to be solved,
Life is the solution to the puzzle."
"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."
"Never say there isn't enough time. You have the same 24 hour day as Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, Einstein, and Marie Curie."
"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
"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it." -Dave Barry
"To laugh often and laugh 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."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." -Charles Dickens, opening line of A Tale of Two Cities
"There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle." ~ Albert Einstein
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." ~C.S. Lewis
"I never think of the future - it comes soon enough." -Albert Einstein
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." -Albert Einstein
"Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today." -James Dean
"I plan to live forever. So far, so good."
"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it." -Rita Mae Brown, Poet
If not now, when?" - The Talmud
"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved." -Lawrence, Poet
"May you live all the days of your life." -Swift
The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." -Harris
"The best wat to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it." -Bach, Author
"Life isn't about keepiong score.
It's not about how many friends you have
Or how accepted you are.
Not about if you have plans for this weekend or if you're alone.
It isn't about who your dateing, who you used to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all."
It isn't about who you have kissed.
It's not about sex.
It isn't about who your family is or how much monet they have.
Or what kind of car you drive.
Or where you went to school.
It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are.
Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to.
It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, or brown.
Or if your skin is too light or too dark.
Not abour what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everybody else thinks you are, or how smart standerdized tests say you are.
It's not about what clubs you're in or how good you are at "your" sport.
It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you".
LIFE JUST ISN'T.
But, life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully.
It's about keeping of betraying trust.
It's about friendship, used as a sactity or a weapon.
It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening.
About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip.
It's about what judgements you pass and why. And who your judgements are spread to.
It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention.
It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge.
,br> It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow , and spreading it.
But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occured alone.
Only you choose the way those hearts are affected, and those choices are what life's about."
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."
"This is not the life I ordered."
