Quotes

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin 

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis 

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov 

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James 

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco 

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha 

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain 

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace 

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre 

Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump 

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney 

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.
Garrison Keillor 

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche 

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
Richard Bach 

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 have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins 

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.
John Burroughs 

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz 


In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost 

It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings 

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 has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholom Aleichem 

Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie 

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.
Jose Ortega y Gasset 

Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale 

Life is half spent before we know what it is.
George Herbert 

Life is never easy for those who dream.
Robert James Waller 

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz 

Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams 

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney 

Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou 

Life must be lived as play.
Plato 

Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci 

Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
Karen Horney 

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
David Lodge 

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.
Mel Brooks