“Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation”
“Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”
“Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.”
“We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.”
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.”
“Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.”
“The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.”
“Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.”
“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
“To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.”
“Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.”
“Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.”
“In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.”
“The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.”
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
“There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.”
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.”
“Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.”
“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.”
“We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.”
“The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.”
“Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.”
“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.”
“If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.”
“The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.”
“A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...”