1. Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it. - Sai Baba 

2. Growth is the only evidence of life. - John Henry Newman 

3. Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie 

4. 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. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

5. I am I plus my circumstances. - Jose Ortega y Gasset 

6. We cannot put off living until we are ready. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

7. We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. - E. M. Forster 

8. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. - E. M. Forster 

9. When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?' - Sydney J. Harris 

10. Life has a higher end, than to be amused. - William Ellery Channing 

11. I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center. - Seamus Heaney 

12. We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it. - Lauryn Hill 

13. Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. - Corita Kent 

14. Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte 

15. Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. - Jean Paul 

16. Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. - Jean Paul

17. You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need. - Vernon Howard

18. I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it. - Laurence Sterne 

19. Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. - Seneca 

20. You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change. - John Cleese 

21. Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive. - Mel Brooks 

22. Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth. - Zhuangzi 

23. Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. - Arthur Miller 

24. Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. - Sholom Aleichem 

25. You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. - Oliver Goldsmith 

26. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. - Hans Christian Andersen 

27. If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. - William J. Clinton 

28. The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

29. Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

30. Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your actions happen in accordance with that. - Jon Kabat-Zinn 

31. All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten. - Robert Fulghum 

32. What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 

33. When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent. - Buzz Aldrin 

34. There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space. - Buzz Aldrin 

35. Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. - Theodor W. Adorno 

36. Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. - O. Henry 

37. I love life because what more is there? - Anthony Hopkins 

38. Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. - William Cowper 

39. 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 

40. Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. - Rebecca West 

41. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth 

42. He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed. - Tertullian 

43. 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. - E. B. White 

44. Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. - Boris Pasternak 

45. I am an artist... I am here to live out loud. - Emile Zola 

46. No man is a failure who is enjoying life. - William Feather 

47. One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. - William Feather 

48. Life is a work in progress. - Jeff Rich 

49. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. - Harvey Fierstein 

50. We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. - Max de Pree 

51. Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow. - Tom Wilson 

52. The difficulty in life is the choice. - George A. Moore 

53. Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia. - Alexis Carrel 

54. Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. - Novalis 

55. Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. - Vladimir Nabokov

56. For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance. - Mignon McLaughlin 

57. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. - Scott Hamilton 58. Unrest of spirit is a mark of life. - Karl A. Menninger 

59. We pass through this world but once. - Stephen Jay Gould 

60. Life is a horizontal fall. - Jean Cocteau 

61. Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it. - Irving Berlin 

62. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. - Havelock Ellis

63. Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. - Havelock Ellis 

64. Don't go through life, grow through life. - Eric Butterworth 

65. Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child. - Peter Diamandis 

66. Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise. - George Gershwin 

67. Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern. - Matthew Arnold

68. Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. - Karen Horney 

69. How sweet it is! - Jackie Gleason 

70. The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. - William Lyon Phelps 

71. Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. - Samuel Smiles 

72. Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries 

73. Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it. - William Christopher Handy 

74. To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice. - John Dalberg-Acton 

75. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. - Isaac Bashevis Singer 

76. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want. - Ben Stein 

77. The real business of life is trying to understand each other. - Gilbert Parker 

78. Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up. - Barbara Kingsolver 

79. The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. - Edward Fitzgerald 

80. I am all for the short and merry life. - Edward Fitzgerald 

81. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. - Ernest Holmes 

82. You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. - Walter Hagen 

83. The person lives twice who lives the first life well. - Robert Herrick 

84. In this world, with thy earthly life, thou art under heaven, stars, and elements, also under hell and devils; all ruleth in thee, and over thee. - Jakob Bohme 

85. The less routine the more life. - Amos Bronson Alcott 

86. I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. - Judy Collins 

87. If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs. - John Clare 

88. Each one of us decides to incarnate upon this planet at a particular point in time and space. We have chosen to come here to learn a particular lesson that will advance us upon our spiritual, evolutionary pathway. - Louise L. Hay 

89. I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. - Arthur Rubinstein 

90. With renunciation life begins. - Amelia Barr 

91. My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past. - Hugh Leonard 

92. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. - Grandma Moses 

93. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. - Grandma Moses 

94. Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else. - Ugo Betti 

95. Life is a DNA software system. - Craig Venter 

96. Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult. - Prem Rawat 

97. We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. - Robert Hall 

98. Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. - Richard L. Evans 

99. The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once. - Abraham Cahan 

100. Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be. - Abraham Cahan