Life

"Everyone sings the song of life off key every once in awhile."
-Caroline Yawn

"If you're always comparing yourself to others instead of trying to find out who you really are inside, you'll never find peace in life."
-Caroline Yawn

"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!' Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, 'Never have I heard anything more divine'?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you do something that turns out wrong, you can almost always put it right, get over it, learn from it, or at least deny it. But once you've missed out on something, it's gone. There will be the girl you never got to say the right words to, the band you never got to see live, the winning streak you never got to cheer on, the brilliant retiring professor whose class you never took, the relative you never got very close with. It's a long list no matter what. Try to keep it as short as possible."
-Gordon Drizschilo

"The most wasted day of all is on which we have not laughed."
-Sebastian Champrort

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

"If you asked me what I came into this world to do, I will tell you. I came to live out loud."
-Emile Zola

"No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way."
-SARK

"When you come to the edge of all the light you have, and must take a step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of two things will happen to you: either there will be something solid for you to stand on, or, you will be taught how to fly."
-Patrick Overton

"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

"Dream to touch the stars, live to touch your dreams."
-Unknown

"Learn as if you will live forever, Live as if you will die tomorrow."
-Unknown

"Life is a match. You don't have to light it; you can let it burn out, or you can set one hell of a bonfire."
-Dow Harris

"A life lived in fear is a life half-lived."
-Tara Mitchel

"That it may never come again is what makes life so sweet."
-Emily Dickinson

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey."
-Unknown

"You only live once and if you play it right once is all you need."
-Anonymous

"Living is the only thing worth dying for."
NO FEAR

"For long you live and high you fly and smiles you give and tears you cry. And all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be."
-Pink Floyd

"Better to live one day as a lion rather than your whole life as a lamb."
-Mussolini

"Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."
-Bloom County

"I'm still standing And nothing's ever gonna bring me down Though everything all around me Has tumbled to the ground I'm still standing Somehow I've made it through it all And though I've often stumbled I have yet to fall."
-Exile

"Celebrate we will, for life is short but sweet for certain."
-Dave Mathews

" ... We live in a civilization our forefathers created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed we live, and what they lived we dream."
-T.K. Whipple

"To get more out of life, give more of yourself."
-Unknown

"Life is not traveling down a road. It's growing, like a tree, that way everything is still inside you and nothing is left behind."
-David Morrisey from Class of '96

"Life was meant to be lived and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason turn his back on life."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out."
-W.C. Handy

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

"Life is like a clogged drain, you have to push hard to get through it."
-Unknown

"Life could slip away in absent minded numbness I'm only saying this 'cuz I wish for the best When you always stay in self-incarceration I think it's such a shame."
-311

"Life is misery and miraculous beauty."
-Janwillem Van de Wetering

"There's no normal life. There's only life. Now get on with it."
-Doc Holiday, Tombstone

"Smile and be happy, for what is life but to live and what is living without a smile."
-e.e. cummings

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."
-Jackie Robinson

"We are always getting ready to live but never living."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-Marie Curie

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."
-Robert Frost

"It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself."
-Betty Friedan

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

"Life is a progress, and not a station."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of."
-Benjamin Franklin

"The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth."
-Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh

"Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact."
-Henry James

"If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."
-Ursula K. LeGuin

"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived."
-"Captain Jean-Luc Picard"

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
-Mark Twain

"I go by many names, under many skies, doing many things, yet am always at the same place. I eat up its power, reveling in anguish. I love, I lie, I am only a human. This is my life, no trespassing. Please. "
-The Lord Greycloak Of Raven's Hill "Those who flow through life as life flows, feel no wear... feel no tear... need no mending... no repair."
-Laotzu "LIFE: NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE."
-J. Q. Pelegano

"Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been."
-Genesis 47:9

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
-Katherine Hepburn

"Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe."
-Denis Leary

"I'm not one of those complicated mixed up cats. I'm not looking for the secret of life or the answer to life. I just go on from day to day taking what comes."
-Frank Sinatra

"You gotta love living, baby! 'Cause dying's a pain in the ass."
-Frank Sinatra

"Live each day like it may be the final day."
-Frank Sinatra

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
-William Shakespeare

"I'm trying to tell you something about my life Maybe give me insight between black and white And the best thing you've ever done for me Is to help me take my life less seriously It's only life after all."
-Emily Saliers

"I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains I looked to the children, I drank from the fountain There's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line. The less I seek my source for some definitive The closer I am to fine."
-Emily Saliers

"There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss.... There's only now, there's only here. Give in to love or live in fear. No other path, no other way, no day but today."
-RENT, Jonathan Larson

"I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to."
-Jimi Hendrix

"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out alive."
-Bugs Bunny

"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

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions." -William James "You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
-James A. Froude

"The acts of life have no beginning or end. Everything happens in a completely idiotic way."
-Tristan Tzara

"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
-Mark Twain

"It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over."
-Edna St. Vincent Millay

"I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me."
-Chris Rapier

"Life is too important to take seriously."
-Corky Siegel

"Let it be."
-Lennon

"Life is something that everyone should try at least once."
-Henry J. Tillman

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

"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
-Will Rogers

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."
-Buddha

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

Life is wasted on the living."
-Anon

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Fear less, hope more;
Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours."
-Swedish Proverb

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

"All life is an experiment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."
-William James

"May you live every day of your life."
-Jonathan Swift

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."
-Jean-Paul Sartre "Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique." -Anon "Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead." -Anon "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -Buddha "The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne "The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." -Joan Borysenko "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 "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." -William James

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
-Anon

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."
-Millard Fuller

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."
-Socrates

"Life is pain...anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
-The Princess Bride

"The thing to remember when traveling is that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all that you are traveling for."
-Louis L'Amour

"Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Its all small stuff."
-Unknown

"There are times when all you wanna be is invisible."
-"Becca Fisher" from Flash Forward

"Here's a thought for everyman Who tries to understand what is in his hand He walks along the open road of love and life Surviving if he can Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say Chained to all the places that he never wished to stay Bound with all the weight of all the words he tried to say As he faced the sun he cast no shadow As they took his soul they stole his pride As he faced the sun he cast no shadow."
-Oasis

"Some dances you sit out, others you change partners, the important thing is to never stop dancing."
-"Gary Hobson" from Early Edition

"You can't always get what you want, But if you try sometimes, you just might find, You get what you need."
-The Rolling Stones

"Keep smiling-people will wonder what you're up to."
-Unknown

"Some folks trust in reason, others trust in might; I don't trust in nothing, but I know it comes out right."
-Grateful Dead

"Being to good is apt to be uninteresting."
-Harry S. Truman

"Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
-Winnie the Pooh

"And if nothing can be done we'll make the best of what's around."
-Dave Matthews Band

"He who laughs, lasts."
-Unknown

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never eat Chinese food in Oklahoma."
-Bryan Miller

"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of jack daniels."
-Frank Sinatra

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way--in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
-Charles Dickens

"Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
-William Shakespeare

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

"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
-W.C. Fields

"No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats -- approximately one billion Chinese couldn't care less."
-Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

"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

"If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are."
-Gensha, Zen Master

"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
-Henry David Thoreau

"We're all in this alone."
-Lily Tomlin

"Eat, drink and be merry; for tomorrow we die." -Dave Matthews Band

" I've loved, I've learned I've fallen, I now try to stand. But I will stumble again and can only hope to regain my ground. I'll never learn."
-Anonymous

"You've got to let your soul shine; it's better than sunshine, it's better than moonshine and it's damn sure better than rain."
-Allman Brothers

"The people on our planet are not standing single file. Look closely. Everyone is really standing in a circle, holding hands. Whatever you give the person next to you will, eventually come back to you."
-Unknown

"The trick is not how much pain you feel-but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses."
-Erica Jong

"unbeing dead isn't being alive."
-e.e. cummings

"Man seems; spirit is Man dreams; spirit lives Man is tethered; spirit free What spirit is, man can be."
-The Waterboys

"Nothing left to do but Smile, smile, smile."
-Grateful Dead

"Tired of screwing up; tired of going down; tired of my life; tired of this town."
-Tom Petty