Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
Samuel JohnsonAdversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis PresleyThe only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.
Russell M. NelsonEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee WilliamsLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert EinsteinThis is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBoot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.
David GogginsChoosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
Joel OsteenCreate a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.
Robert GreeneMy life is my argument.
Albert SchweitzerIt sure is hell to be president.
Harry S. TrumanI think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
Paul AusterThere is no love of life without despair of life.
Albert CamusIt isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
Muhammad AliWe are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
Benjamin DisraeliIf you don’t live your life, then who will?
RihannaPoetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
Robert FrostIt is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis BaconThe first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.
VoltaireBeing beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men.
Lady GagaThe happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert HubbardIt doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOld age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Muhammad AliWhere a man can live, he can also live well.
Marcus AureliusI was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing ‚Funny Face‘ when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance – and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey HepburnEverybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.
David ByrneLife 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 WoolfIf my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
Isaac AsimovI was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.
Dwayne JohnsonEverything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard ShawNothing in life is promised except death.
Kanye WestThe perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond TutuMy life is mine to remember.
DrakeBe sincere; be brief; be seated.
Franklin D. RooseveltHabit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous HuxleyPeople don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.
Dolly PartonWhat is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
BuddhaThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaI should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Benjamin FranklinMy one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody AllenI found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.
Alice MunroWe all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
Paul AusterA lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
Barack ObamaMan needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
Carl JungThe secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin DisraeliJudgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
Friedrich NietzscheLife is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
Muhammad AliLife has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul SartreOn life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
Alexander PopeTime stays, we go.
H. L. MenckenI was so rude when I was a little girl.
RihannaWith Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.
Sunil ChhetriOld age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.
Golda MeirNo one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.
Billy GrahamLife’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.
Joel OsteenIf you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.
Kanye WestAs long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?
ChanakyaGod in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.
Isaac Newton