In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham LincolnLife is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. Denis WaitleyLife isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard ShawI have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur RubinsteinWe all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize we only have one. Tom HiddlestonYou get in life what you have the courage to ask for. Oprah WinfreyLife is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. ConfuciusAn unexamined life is not worth living. SocratesWhen one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. Alexander Graham BellTo live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. Oscar WildeLife is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Allen SaundersTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. Emily DickinsonThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. Ralph Waldo EmersonLife is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack LondonLife is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live. Anna QuindlenMany of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas EdisonLife is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going. Tennessee WilliamsThe two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Mark TwainLife is like walking through Paradise with peas in your shoes. Charles Edward JerninghamLife is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it. Emily DickinsonThe only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes—only sooner. Tallulah BankheadIf A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. Albert EinsteinLife is a gamble at terrible odds—if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it. Tom StoppardWe are not unhappy today because of the complexities of life. We are unhappy because we miss its underlying simplicities. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David KesslerGet a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Anna QuindlenLife is way wilder than I am comfortable with, way farther out, as we used to say, more magnificent, more deserving of awe and, I would add, more benevolent—well-meaning, kindly. Ann Lamotthe most important thing is to enjoy your life -- to be happy -- it's all that matters. Audrey HepburnMellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life. Anne HathawayWork like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching. Randall G LeightonThere comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
