Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
- Hans Christian Anderson
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."
- Erma Bombeck
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
- Richard Bach
I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Bill Watterson
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
- Lillian Dickson
To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.
- Jeremy Taylor
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
God pours life into death and death into life without a drop being spilled.
- Author Unknown
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach.
- Havelock Ellis
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
- Louis Adamic
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
- Mark Twain
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
- Albert Camus
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have.
- Rupert Brooke
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.
- Bruce Crampton
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
- Heywood Broun
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all... It is just about over.
- Sandra Hochman
It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
- Phillips Brooks
