A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it should give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. R. Palmer
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagore
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the last, best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious. Albert Schweitzer
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
There is no such thing in anyone’s life as an unimportant day. Alexander Woollcott
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Allan K. Chalmers
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living! Amanda Bradley
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves. André Gide
If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space. Anonymous
Live with passion. Anthony Robbins
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross lies your calling. Aristotle
Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got. Art Buchwald
Enthusiasm moves the world. Arthur James Balfour
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. Arthur Schopenhauer
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business, but living. B. C. Forbes
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do – can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do. Barbara Sher
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Ben Hogan
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. Christian Furchtegott Gellert
Life is just a blank slate, what matters most is what you write on it. Christine Frankland
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Cicero
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternal. Cicero
Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries. Coretta Scott King
You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. Dale Earnhardt
Adventure: the pursuit of life. Daniel Roy Wiarda
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. Danny Kaye
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. Dave Weinbaum
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, and acts the best. David Bailey
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. David Carradine
Adventure is not outside man; it is within. David Grayson
I don’t want to come to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. Diane Ackerman
You’re writing the story of your life one moment at a time. Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. E. Cummings
Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. Earl Nightingale
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it. Eileen Caddy
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences. Eleanor Roosevelt
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
I am an artist… I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickenson
The mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. Foster C. McClellan
Everything is created from moment to moment, always new. Like fireworks, this universe is a celebration and you are the spectator contemplating the eternal Fourth of July of your absolute splendor. Francis Lucille
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. Frank A. Clark
Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. Frank Lloyd Wright
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. G. K. Chesterton
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. George Bernard Shaw
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. George Bernard Shaw
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
Live for something rather than die for nothing. George Patton
The sense of humor is the oil of life’s engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of things is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh. George S. Merriam
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver, American Educator, Scientist
Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do. Gerry Sikorski
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. Glenn Clark
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing — then we truly live life. Greg Anderson
Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every person’s life is a fairytale written by God’s fingers. Hans Christian Anderson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Helen Keller
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition – in having put forth the best within you. Henry J. Kaiser
It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined. Henry James
Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions. Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. Henry Ward Beecher
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. Heraclitus
Look within!… The secret is inside you. Hui-neng
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life. J. Krishnamurti, Indian Philosopher
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. James Dean
We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. Japanese proverb
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. Jean de la Bruyère
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Time and memory are true artists; they remold reality nearer to the heart’s desire. John Dewey
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. John F. Kennedy
May you live all the days of your life. Jonathan Swift
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. Lady Bird Johnson
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days. Lance Armstrong
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything. Laurence Sterne
I believe life is to be lived, not worked, enjoyed, not agonized, loved, not hated. Leland Bartlett
Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory. Les Brown
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Les Brown
Living a life without limits is the highest state of existence. Lieh Tzu
Such is human psychology that if we don’t express our joy, we soon cease to feel it. Lin Yutang
What we play is life. Louis Armstrong
One should count each day a separate life. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. M. Scott Peck
It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing. Marcia Wieder
Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it. Marcia Wieder
You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart’s desires. Marcia Wieder
Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Remember this – very little is needed to make a happy life. Marcus Aurelius
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis. Margaret Bonnano
I must accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don’t set any condition. Margaret Lee Runbeck
We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand – and melting like a snowflake. Marie B. Ray
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. Mark Twain
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching. Mark Twain
Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. Mary Kay Ash
Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit. Mary Lou Retton
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
Chance is the providence of adventurers. Napoleon Bonaparte
I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they’ve come up with so far. Neil Simon
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomskyon
When you wholeheartedly adopt a “with all your heart” attitude and go out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things. Norman Vincent Peale
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey
Fortune and love befriend the bold. Ovid
Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healthy to the bones.
Proverbs 16:24
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Rabindranath Tagoreon
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to wear out than to rust out. Richard Cumberland
The best is yet to be. Robert Browning
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on. Robert Frost
We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone… and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something. Sandra Day O’Connor
People travel to wonder at the height of the mountains, at the huge waves of the seas, at the long course of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and yet they pass by themselves without wondering. St. Augustine
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. Tagore
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Teilhard de Chardin
Celebrate what you want to see more of. Thomas J. Peters
It takes seventy-two muscles to frown, but only thirteen to smile. Unknown Author
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. Unknown Author
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new. Voltaire
You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now. Wayne Dyer
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark
We are all here for a spell. Get all the good laughs you can. Will Rogers
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay
In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. William Blake
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you. Winnie the Pooh
Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness. Zig Ziglar
Of all the attitudes we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing. Zig Ziglar
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