1) What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.
HH the Dalai Lama
2) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus quote
3) I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all… It is just about over.
4) It is not in the nature of man, nor of any living entity, to start out by giving up, by spitting in one's own face and damning existence; that requires a process of corruption whose rapidity differs from man to man. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lose it. Then all of these vanish in the vast swamp of their elders who tell them persistently that maturity consists of abandoning one's mind; security, of abandoning one's values; practicality, of losing self-esteem. Yet a few hold on and move on, knowing that the fire is not to be betrayed, learning how to give it shape, purpose and reality. But whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.
Ayn Rand
5) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein
6) Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self, so therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.
Kahlil Gibran
7) 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
8) Talk doesn't cook rice.
Chinese Proverb
9) You cannot discover the purpose of life by asking someone else - the only way you'll ever get the right answer is by asking yourself.
Terri Guillemets
10) You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.
11) To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
12) Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.
Anonymous
13) The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
14) Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Saint Exupery
15) When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
Lin-Chi
16) Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
17) We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.
Mignon McLaughlin
18) Laugh as much as you breath and love as much as you live.
19) A temptation resisted is a true measure of character.
Pappilon
20) Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Anonymous
21) Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant.
Antonio Porchia
22) In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
23) Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you have never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
24) Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
25) Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie Chaplin
26) The time is always right to do what is right.
Martin Luther King Jr.
27) Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.
Marcus Aurelius
28) Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
Dale Carnegie
29) Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley
30) Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Henry David Thoreau
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