This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

As soon as there is life there is danger.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Children make your life important.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

We were poor, but we smiled.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

People who don’t like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that’s how life is.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

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.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Wisdom 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.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

I’m a can-do girl.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Hope is a waking dream.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

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