The less routine the more life.

Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger.

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go."

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

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.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands.

Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body. [Matthew 6:31]

Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

Real life seems to have no plots.

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survived our captivity.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.

Living, just by itself -- what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting --or he'll come along and nibble your brain.

Life itself is the proper binge.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.

Every morning I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

It's not how long life is but the quality of our life that is important.

Life begins when you get out of the grandstand into the game.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Let us live while we live.

Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

What life means to us is determined, not so much by what life brings to us as by the attitude we bring to life; not so much by what happens to us as by our reaction to what happens.

Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars.

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.

Like bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.

Life is at its best when it's shaken and stirred.

Life is a series of little deaths out of which life always returns.

I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts -- That hope always triumphs over experience -- That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great -- and they know I know it.

Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. OR It's not what the world holds for you it's what you bring to it

The old Quaker was right: "I expect to pass through life but once. If there is any kindness, or any good thing I can do to my fellow beings, let me do it now. I shall pass this way but once. "

Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die.

People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

Life is supposed to get tough.

Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"

I can't be bitter. No one has a contract on life.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, and love. They do not require coupons.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

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.

To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Those who live are those who fight.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle -- even if he can afford more.

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.

Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.

Life is short; live it up.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

To live fully is to let go and die with each passing moment, and to be reborn in each new one.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.

There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism -- this is the art of living.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

People find life entirely too time-consuming.

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

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead.

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

Life is a dead-end street.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

My art and profession is to live.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness. but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow Up.

This tattered life is my only robe; the wind my only refuge.

Life is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get.

Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one.

Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation

Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop peddling.

Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.

We come and go just like ripples in a stream.

Life is too short to learn German.

Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man.

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter.

Live today for tomorrow it will all be history.

No one knows when they are well off.

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.

Life is really about a spiritual unfolding that is personal and enchanting -- an unfolding that no science or philosophy or religion has yet fully clarified.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Live virtuously, and you cannot not die too soon, or live too long.

There is no shortcut to life. To the end of our days, life is a lesson imperfectly learned.

Life is a wilderness of twists and turns, where faith is your only compass.

The aim of life is some way of living, as flexible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to condor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

Life is warfare.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Well, take your time and don't live too fast. Troubles will come and they will pass. Find a woman and you'll find love. Don't forget, son, there is someone up above.

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

May you live all the days of your life.

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.

Life is a classroom in which each of us is being tested, tried, and passed.

If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

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.

Only those live who do good.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

Live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my coming too; For the cause that lacks resistance, For the future and the distance, And the good that I can do.

Live poor so you can die rich.

Making a life comes before making a living.

One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.

Life is a state of mind.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Life is an uphill business for the guy who's not on the level.

Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

Our life's journey of self-discovery is not a straight-line rise from one level of consciousness to another. Instead, it is a series of steep climbs and flat plateaus, then further climbs. Even though we all approach the journey from different directions, certain of the journey's characteristics are common to all of us.

If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints.

The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.