Jean-Paul Sartre: One always...

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.
/Jean-Paul Sartre/

Nelson Henderson: The true...

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
/Nelson Henderson/

Nia Vardalos: You only...

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.
/Nia Vardalos/

Neve Campbell: If you're...

If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything.
/Neve Campbell/

Edith Wharton: Life is...

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

Henry James: Live all...

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?
/Henry James/

Philip Larkin: In everyone...

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
/Philip Larkin/

Mark Udall: Ranchers need...

Ranchers need clean water for their stock, farmers need it for their crops, every employer needs it to stay in business, and every living thing needs it for life... The law needs to be clear to protect water quality and the rights of landowners.
/Mark Udall/

Helen Garner: Writers seem...

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.
/Helen Garner/

Muhammed Iqbal: But the...

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.
/Muhammed Iqbal/

Miguel De Cervantes: She fights...

She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.
/Miguel De Cervantes/

Paul McCartney: Painting is...

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.
/Paul McCartney/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Manners are...

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

George Cadbury: But if...

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
/George Cadbury/

Molly Parker: In general,...

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
/Molly Parker/

Steven Tyler: Every life...

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
/Steven Tyler/

Raoul Vaneigem: Daily life...

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
/Raoul Vaneigem/

Randall Jarrell: A poet...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
/Randall Jarrell/

Francis Picabia: Wherever art...

Wherever art appears, life disappears.
/Francis Picabia/

Bill Cosby: I recently...

I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run with you anymore unless I bring something to read."
/Bill Cosby/

Evelyn Underhill: We have...

We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
/Evelyn Underhill/

Anna Quindlen: If I...

If I get the forty additional years statisticians say are likely coming to me, I could fit in at least one, maybe two new lifetimes. Sad that only one of those lifetimes can include being the mother of young children.
/Anna Quindlen/

H. L. Mencken: Life is...

Life is a dead-end street.
/H. L. Mencken/

Virginia Woolf: So the...

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.
/Virginia Woolf/

Greta Garbo: This is...

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.
/Greta Garbo/

Epictetus: A ship...

A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
/Epictetus/

Oprah Winfrey: Getting my...

Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
/Oprah Winfrey/

Jennifer Jones: If you...

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
/Jennifer Jones/

Lynn Davies: Sport and...

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

Alfred North Whitehead: The deepest...

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
/Alfred North Whitehead/

W. Somerset Maugham: D'you call...

D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
/W. Somerset Maugham/

Og Mandino: Every memorable...

Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation a new meaning, no matter how frightening or difficult. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles.
/Og Mandino/

George Saintsbury: The transition...

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
/George Saintsbury/

Martin Luther: Who loves...

Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
/Martin Luther/