Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Life must be lived as play.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Life is wasted on the living.

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

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.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I live in a crazy time.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Life loves the liver of it.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

When 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.

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

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.