A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Death is a fearful thing.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Life is short, the art long.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

Time stays, we go.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.