"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose."

~ Barbara Hall

"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

~ Ben Stein

"Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious."

~ Brendan Gill

"Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it."

~ Christopher Morley

"The purpose of life is to fight maturity."

~ Dick Werthimer

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania."

~ Dorothy Parker

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."

~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life is just one damned thing after another."

~ Elbert Hubbard

"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."

~ Fran Lebowitz

"Life is something that everyone should try at least once."

~ Henry J. Tillman

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

~ Isaac Asimov

"Life is a long lesson in humility."

~ James M. Barrie

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

~ John Lennon

"The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values."

~ Norman Thomas

"Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one."

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."

~ Oscar Wilde

"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

~ Peter De Vries

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."

~ R. D. Laing

"The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive."

~ Robert Heinlein

"Life is just a bowl of pits."

~ Rodney Dangerfield

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."

~ Samuel Butler

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

~ Sir Winston Churchill

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

~ Socrates

"Life is an unbroken succession of false situations."

~ Thornton Wilder

"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."

~ Truman Capote

"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."

~ Wally 'Famous' Amos

"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."

~ William Goldman

"Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."

~ William Shakespeare

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."

~ Woody Allen

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature."

~ Zeno

"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

~ Hans Christian Anderson

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

~ Erma Bombeck

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."

~ Robert Byrne

"The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth."

~ Chinese Proverb

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."

~ Woody Allen

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

~ Elwyn Brooks White

"A life without cause is a life without effect."

~ Barbarella

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

~ Richard Bach

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."

~ Jack Handey

"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

~ Christopher Morley

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee,
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

~ Robert Frost

"In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular."

~ Kathy Norris

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

~ Emily Dickinson

"Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant."

~ Antonio Porchia

"My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot."

~ Ashleigh Brilliant

"I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."

~ Bill Watterson

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."

~ Quentin Crisp

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."

~ Charles Schulz

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

~ Arthur Miller

"Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night."

~ Marion Howard

"You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth."

~ Charles Johnson

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

~ Danny Kaye

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."

~ lice Roosevelt Longworth

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once."

~ Lillian Dickson

"Life is a cement trampoline."

~ Howard Nordberg

"To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him."

~ Jeremy Taylor

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

~ Grandma Moses

"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."

~ Erich Fromm

"My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can."

~ Cary Grant

"To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach."

~ Havelock Ellis

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart."

~ John, Viscount Morley

"My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn."

~ Louis Adamic

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

~ Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."

~ Samuel Johnson

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I am with you kid. Let's go.""

~ Maya Angelou

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

~ George Bernard Shaw

"Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you."

~ Mignon McLaughlin

"'Tis all a chequer board of nights and days,
Where destiny with men for pieces plays;
Hither and thither, and mates, and slays."

~ Edward Fitzgerald

"...the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse."

~ Walt Whitman

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

~ Mark Twain

"Life is the game that must be played."

~ Edwin Arlington Robinson

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

~ Albert Camus

"There is no wealth but life."

~ John Ruskin

"I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have."

~ Rupert Brooke

"Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise."

~ Jerome K. Jerome

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."

~ Henry David Thoreau

"Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool."

~ Gioacchino Rossini

"We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones."

~ Paul Eldridge

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

~ T.S. Eliot

"Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side."

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

~ Anton Chekhov

"Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life."

~ Antonio Porchia

"Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation."

~ W. Somerset Maugham

"I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on."

~ Robert Browning

"Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove."

~ Ashleigh Brilliant

"Life is an incurable Disease."

~ Abraham Cowley

"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."

~ Albert Camus

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination."

~ Christopher Isherwood

"The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy."

~ Angelina Jolie

"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what y

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