“Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.”
“Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.”
“When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.”
“Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.”
“Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.”
“Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.”
“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”
“Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.”
“Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.”
“Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.”
“Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.”
“This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.”
“You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy. Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.”
“Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.”
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.”
“I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.”
“If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.”
“Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth.”
“The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.”
“Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.”
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
“The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.”
“You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.”
“In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.”
“The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.”
“If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.”
“He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.”
“We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.”