I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Life is like a trumpet – if you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it.
It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life… just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re living?
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Nothing is more precious than life… especially the life of your child.
Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
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.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee.
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
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.
Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’