“Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.”
“I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.”
“If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.”
“Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.”
“Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.”
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”
“You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.”
“In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.”
“The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.”
“If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
“He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.”
“We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.”
“It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.”
“On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.”
“I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.”
“There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.”
“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.”
“The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.”
“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly”
“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.”
“In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.”
“Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.”
“Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.”
“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.”
“There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.”
“It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.”
“Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.”
“If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.”