Don't let life discourage you;
everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present
because that is where life resides.
Life really is wonderful, just in case you'd forgotten.
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand
small uncaring ways.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Tomorrow's a big maybe.
I still find each day too short for all that thoughts I want to think, all the walks I
want to take, all the books want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Well, maybe it is true, maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant
conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
Tomorrow isn't promised to any of us.
No, life may not be easy, it can be lonely. Full of people we think we know, but barely
comprehend. Yet we must always remember: it's the challenges that define us best, and the
obstacles that illuminate what we're truly capable of. We must welcome adversity and embrace
struggle, and no matter what we get from life, never give less than 100 percent. Of course, at
the end of every battle, weary day, we fold ourselves into peaceful darkness and find comfort in
those gentle words. . . "good night."
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life
unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny,
denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can
become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a
golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
She can live through it because we do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of
misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and
we do not live in chronic dread of disaster. We do not expect disaster until we have specific
reason to expect it - and when we encounter it, we are free to fight it. It is not happiness but
suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success but calamity that we regard as the
abnormal exception in human life.
Everything important in life really seems to get down-played so children can be encouraged
to join the rat race and make as much money as possible, instead of being told that they should
be happy first.
If life is a dream, do you dread waking?
All our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave.
The good die young because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over
and over.
Life is like an overlong drama through which we sit being nagged by the vague memories of
having read the reviews.
The path of life has many crossroads, and at each one it's difficult to say goodbye and go
our own separate ways, choosing the direction that is right for each of us. But the memory of
being together will always remain, and there is always the chance that our paths will cross again.
You open your eyes and everything's just like yesterday, only it's today.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, like a feather on the back of my hand.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of
for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future
generations.
We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces.
We live as we dream - alone. . .
Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another,
and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a
brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for
love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs
window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
There was no logic in life whatsoever, that much I saw. Anne Frank had had a loving,
protective father and died anyway. I had Daddy, who was dead to me.
Life seems nearest to acceptable at four a.m.
I think how strange it is I've ended up with this life.
You're born and you die, and you make a lot of mistakes in between.
What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quickly you hardly
catch it going.
Enjoy today, and don't waste it grieving over a bad yesterday - tomorrow may be even worse.
Our lives are shaped by those who love us and by those who refuse to love us.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
We always attract into our lives whatever we think about the most, believe in most
strongly, expect on the deepest levels, and/or imagine most vividly.
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.
What you achieve through the journey of life is not as important as who you become.
Let your life dance lightly on the edges of time, like the dew on the tip of a leaf.
When it comes to life, live like there is no tomorrow. Love like you won't get hurt, work
like you don't need the money and dance like no one is watching.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
