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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing...!!

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key...!!

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art...!!

All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out...!!

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness...!!
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile...!!

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...!!

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats...!!

Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil...!!

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death...!!

People living deeply have no fear of death...!!

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living...!!

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself...!!

The most decisive actions of our life ... are most often unconsidered actions...!!

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process...!!

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives...!!

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back...!!

They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense...!!

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up...!!

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise...!!

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for...!!

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness...!!

A good life is a main argument...!!

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory...!!

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of...!!

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are...!!
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge...!!

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it...!!

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change...!!

Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived...!!

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness...!!

Our lives are like a candle in the wind...!!

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep...!!

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?...!!

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation...!!

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other...!!

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer...!!

Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers...!!

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed...!!

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed...!!

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more...!!
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

My candle burns at both its ends;It will not last the night;But oh, my foes, and oh, my friends -- It gives a lovely light.Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived.

Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.(Oct. 1986) The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

Love -- is anterior to Life --Posterior -- to Death -- Initial of Creation, andThe Exponent of Earth --
That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall not live in vain.If I can ease one life the aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in vain.Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,Love and desire and hate:I think they have no portion in us afterWe pass the gate.They are not long, the days of wine and roses;Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream.

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

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

Love doesn't make the world go 'round; love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

Life is relationships; the rest is just details.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Security is when everything is settled. When nothing can happen to you. Security is the denial of life.
Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.

Nothing else matters much -- not wealth, nor learning, nor even health -- without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
A useless life is an early death.

Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

I've looked at life from both sides nowFrom win and lose and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Remember that no man loses any other life than this which he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses.
And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Service is what life is all about.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy and a tragedy.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Blackwater WoodsIs it so small a thing To have enjoy'd the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done...A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by its breathtaking moments.

Where there is love there is life.Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.This entry continued ...
Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Live your life and forget your age.Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

And now the end is nearAnd so I face the final curtain,My friends, I'll say it clear,I'll state my case of which I'm certain.I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highwayAnd more, much more than this, I did it my way.

The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

We as for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.

Life is a progress, and not a station.We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.

Life is a succession of lessons, which must be lived to be understood.

Life is "trying things to see if they work."

The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.What is this talked-of mystery of birthBut being mounted bareback on the earth?

The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Injustice can be eliminated, but human conflicts and natural limitations cannot be removed. The conflicts of social life and the limitations of nature cannot be controlled or transcended. They can, however, be endured and survived. It is possible for there to be a dance with life, a creative response to its intrinsic limits and challenges ... [A Feminist Ethic of Risk]

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.


Birth, life, and death -- each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.

Life would be much easier if I had the source code.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks.
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So, if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Lord, let me live until I die.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. The Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902
These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. Is Life Worth Living?

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want...!!