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.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

I love life because what more is there?

Life well spent is long.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

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.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

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.

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

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

How sweet it is!

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.

You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

I bear a charmed life.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Life loves the liver of it.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.