“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” – Voltaire
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James
“I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.” – Joyce Cary
“Our life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.” – Thomas Brooks
“Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.” – Albert Schweitzer
“Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.” – Susan B. Anthony
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the surface of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.” – Annie Dillard
“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.” – Harriet Martineau
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou
“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Life is God’s novel. Let him write it.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” – Ashley Smith
“Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.” – Anthony Robbins
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” – Arthur Rubinstein
“If you really want to change your thinking and your life, make a decision today to begin associating, in every area of your life, with other men and women whom you admire, respect, and look up to.” – Brian Tracy
“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’. – Emma Bombeck
“You’re alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.” – Barbara Hall
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain
“The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.” – Bertrand Russell
“I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy…you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” – Katherine Mansfield
“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.” – Wayne Dyer
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life.” – Joseph Campbell
“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
