The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings
In the book of life, the answers aren t in the back. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. -- Heywood Brown
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. -- Lord Byron
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo3 in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior4 and orator5, 1890
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate6 reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement7. -- Ernest Dimnet
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself. -- Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first. -- Benjamin Franklin
In three words I can sum up everything I ve learned about life: It goes on. -- Robert Frost
There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Gandhi
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. -- Lewis Grizzard
Don t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. -- Grace Hansen
Life isn t a matter of milestones8, but of moments. -- Rose Kennedy
Life can only be understood backwards9, but it must be lived forwards. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. -- D.H. Lawrence
Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation10 and regain11 the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb12 at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe. -- Denis Leary
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea. -- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone
And in the end it s not the years in your life that count. It s the life in your years. -- Abraham Lincoln
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition. -- Walter Prager
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
To be or not to be isn t the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life isn t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. -- Alvin Toffler
Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration13 and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery14, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy15 and baseness. -- Leon Trotsky, Diary In Exile, Entry for April 3, 1935
Being on the tightrope16 is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. -- Oscar Wilde
