The nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly like pearls slipping off a string.
Lucy M. Montgomery
The length of your education is less important than its breadth,
and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant
The significant problems we face in life can not be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
Albert Einstein
"Life can be real tough ... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over."
Marie Osmond
If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be too cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
Michael Cibenko
There is an Indian Belief that everyone is in a house of four rooms:
A physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room everyday, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.
Rumer Godden
"I expect to pass through this life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now as I shall not pass this way again."
William Penn
So of cheerfulness, or a good temper... the more it is spent,
the more it remains.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain."
Plautus
If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I know very few things I'd take seriously any more. I'd certainly be less hygenic... I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains, I would swim more rivers, and I would watch more sunsets. I would eat more icecream and fewer beans. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones. oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it all over again, I'd have many more of them, in fact I'd try not to have anything else, just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of my day. If I had it to do all over again, I'd travel lighter, much lighter than I have. I would start barefoot earlier in the spring, and I'd stay that way later in the fall. and I would ride more merry-go-rounds, and catch more gold rings, and greet more people and pick more flowers and dance more often. if I had it to do all over again - but you see, I don't.
Jorge Luis Borges
what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?
Matthew 16:26
Everything should be as simple as possible -- but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."
Harry James
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde
"We are challenged on every hand to work untiring to achieve excellence in our lifework. Not all men are called to specialized or professional jobs; even fewer rise to the heights of genius in the arts and sciences; many are called to be laborers in factories, fields, and streets. But no work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
Mark Twain
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
John Homer Miller
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Søren Kirkegaard
"Life is not a laughing matter - but can you imagine having to live without laughing?"
Leonard Sukhoru Kou
Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.
Deepak Chopra
"Nothing is worth more than this day."
Goethe
"Into this mysterious universe we are born, with no apparent set of instructions, no maps or equations, no signs or guideposts, nothing but our equally unfathomable instincts, intuitions, and reasoning abilities to tell us where we came from, why we are here, and what we are supposed to do. What we do possess - perhaps it is the key to our survival as a species - is an almost unquenchable need to know."
Philip S. Berg
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
Rita Mae Brown
"The mere sense of living is joy enough."
Emily Dickinson
"Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight."
Scottish Proverb
"Life is worth being lived, but not worth being discussed all the time."
Isabelle Adfani
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
Kathleen A. Sutton
"Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it."
Shakti Gawain
"It is only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it were the only one we had."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt
"One ought, everyday at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
Johnann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it.
Anna Robertson Brown
"Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man."
Samuel Butler
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
Henry Ford
"Life is very interesting if you make mistakes. "
Georges Carpentier
"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."
Joe E. Lewis
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
Annie Dillard
"The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
Victor Hugo
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein
"Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands."
Cathy Better
"There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth, submit to death and forget to live."
Jean De La Bruyere
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
James Branch Cabell
"Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you."
Frank Tyger
"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger. "
Hans Christian Anderson
"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. "
William James
Life does not have meaning through mere existence or acquisition or fun. The meaning of life is inherent in the connections we make to others through honor and obligation.
Laura Schlessinger Ph.D
"Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future."
Antoine Rivarol
"Don't worry about your life; what you shall eat, or drink, or the clothing for your body."
[Matthew 6:31]
"There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it."
Donald Harington
"It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them. "
Evangeline Cory Booth
"Live as you would have wished to live when you come to die."
Gellert
"Be glad of life because it gives you a chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at stars. "
Henry Van Dyke
"Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do. "
John Steinbeck
"It's better to be an authentic loser than a false success, and to die alive than to live dead. "
William Markiewicz
"Live today for tomorrow it will all be history. "
Proverb
"When I hear somebody sigh that "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
Sidney J. Harris
"Dance like no one is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like no one is listening, Live like it's heaven on earth. "
William Purkey