Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

It is natural to die as to be born.

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

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

This 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.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

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

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

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Art is the proper task of life.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

If 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.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

The honor of a nation is its life.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

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

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

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

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

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

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

Life is short, the art long.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

There’s place and means for every man alive.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.