“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
“In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.”
“The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.”
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
“There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.”
“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.”
“We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
“Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.”
“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.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...”
“Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.”
“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”
“Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.”
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
“Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
“Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
“This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
“You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.”