Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Don't let life discourage you everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
Life is a series of collisions with the future it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.