“It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.”
“May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.”
“Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.”
“Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.”
“I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it.”
“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”
“Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.”
“Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.”
“Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive.”
“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things”
“Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.”
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
“Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.”
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
“A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.”
“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.”
“What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.”
“The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.”
“Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.”
“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.”
“Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.”
“My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.”
“It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.”
“Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.”
“We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.”
“The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles.”