1. The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. - Horace Walpole 

2. He not busy being born is busy dying. - Bob Dylan 

3. To live is to think. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

4. While there's life, there's hope. - Marcus Tullius Cicero 

5. Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

6. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. - Joseph Campbell 

7. The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. - Joseph Campbell 

8. The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. - George Eliot 

9. What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot 

10. Into each life some rain must fall. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

11. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 

12. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. - Edmund Burke 

13. While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

14. Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

15. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Russell 

16. I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. - Rabindranath Tagore 

17. We live in the world when we love it. - Rabindranath Tagore 

18. This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it. - William James 

19. The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. - William James 

20. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain. - William James 

21. Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings. - William James 

22. 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 

23. Life is too short for long-term grudges. - Elon Musk 

24. The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. - Jimi Hendrix 

25. Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier. - Albert Schweitzer 

26. Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright 

27. Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always. - Rainer Maria Rilke 

28. Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. - Elie Wiesel 

29. Life is wasted on the living. - Douglas Adams 

30. Unbeing dead isn't being alive. - e. e. cummings 

31. True life is lived when tiny changes occur. - Leo Tolstoy 

32. The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection. - Henri Nouwen 

33. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. - Woody Allen 

34. Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

35. There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

36. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. - Robert Louis Stevenson 

37. Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. - Audre Lorde 

38. The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Robert Byrne 

39. My trade and art is to live. - Michel de Montaigne 

40. It's 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, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

41. Live, so you do not have to look back and say: 'God, how I have wasted my life.' - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 

42. Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach 

43. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov 

44. I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible. - Isaac Asimov 

45. Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. - Robert E. Lee 

46. The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 

47. Life is half spent before we know what it is. - George Herbert 

48. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. - Charlie Chaplin 

49. I want to live my life, not record it. - Jackie Kennedy 

50. Life is a lively process of becoming. - Douglas MacArthur 

51. There is no wealth but life. - John Ruskin 

52. What we play is life. - Louis Armstrong 

53. It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. - Terry Pratchett 

54. We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life. - William Osler 

55. The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - Gilbert K. Chesterton 

56. The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed. - Eminem 

57. To know nothing is the happiest life. - Desiderius Erasmus 

58. What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have. - Ralph Marston 

59. I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. - B. F. Skinner 

60. Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. - Don Miguel Ruiz 

61. Life is largely a matter of expectation. - Horace 

62. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. - Horace 

63. A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. - Carl Sandburg 

64. Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. - Carl Sandburg 

65. A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. - James Allen 

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

67. Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. - Rose Kennedy 

68. The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. - Henri Frederic Amiel 

69. The best path through life is the highway. - Henri Frederic Amiel 

70. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. - Henri Frederic Amiel 

71. To be free is to have achieved your life. - Tennessee Williams 

72. There is just one life for each of us: our own. - Euripides 

73. The greatest pleasure of life is love. - Euripides 

74. Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. - Morihei Ueshiba 

75. Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it. - Dave Barry 

76. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 

77. Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. - Josh Billings 

78. I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. - John Burroughs 

79. I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding. - George Lucas 

80. We live in a rainbow of chaos. - Paul Cezanne 

81. Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. - Jack Kerouac 

82. The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. - Henry Miller 

83. People living deeply have no fear of death. - Anais Nin 

84. The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself. - Anais Nin 

85. Each day is the scholar of yesterday. - Publilius Syrus 

86. 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 

87. Every man dies. Not every man really lives. - William Wallace 

88. Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too. - Will Smith 

89. Life is made up of marble and mud. - Nathaniel Hawthorne 

90. Life itself is the proper binge. - Julia Child 

91. Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is. - Jorge Luis Borges 

92. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler 

93. Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler 

94. Life is not an exact science, it is an art. - Samuel Butler 

95. To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. - Samuel Butler 

96. The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. - William Hazlitt 

97. The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled. - Henry Adams 

98. Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. - Charles Lindbergh 

99. Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. - Jonathan Sacks 

100. Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come. - Swami Sivananda