A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
I do not regret one moment of my life.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
I love life because what more is there.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
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.
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
May you live all the days of your life.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
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.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Only a few things are really important.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
H. L. Mencken
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
e. e. cummings
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
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'.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
While there's life, there's hope.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
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.
Your life is what your thoughts make it.