There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack LondonAffection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. LewisAnd this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William ShakespeareYou cannot find peace by avoiding life.
Virginia WoolfWhat life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.
Jocko WillinkOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeThere are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
Muhammad AliLife isn’t fair, but God is.
Joyce MeyerAgeing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
George H. W. BushDon’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
Lou HoltzAll my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest HemingwayMost of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert FrostThe greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William JamesThis isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.
Terry PratchettI just have an enthusiasm for life.
Lou HoltzCreate a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Robert GreeneGetting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
Samuel JohnsonThe secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin DisraeliThe God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas JeffersonNeither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
EpictetusLife is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel JohnsonWe do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiNo man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas CarlyleEvery secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia WoolfPassions are the gales of life.
Alexander PopeWisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
Hermann HesseWhat we live by we die by.
Robert FrostMiracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard ShawThe way to know life is to love many things.
Vincent Van GoghCourage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOur life is made by the death of others.
Leonardo da VinciThe one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar WildeFor me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
Alice WalkerMy life is mine to remember.
DrakeI make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.
Christopher HitchensThe universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Marcus AureliusA life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard ShawOld age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Muhammad AliYou have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
Paulo CoelhoLife is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeWhile I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da VinciWhat is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David ThoreauLife comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Angelina JolieWithout music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich NietzscheOnly those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Douglas MacArthurMy focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim CarreyImagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert EinsteinNo one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
James BaldwinHappiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we’ve chosen to do with our life.
Steve JobsWe think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don’t know the probability that a planet develops life.
Stephen HawkingDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard ShawOur existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.
Anthony HopkinsMars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
Elon MuskLife has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul SartreLife is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia WoolfLife is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Alice Walker