To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him. – Jeremy Taylor
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. – Grandma Moses
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John, Viscount Morley, Address on Aphorisms
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
To live remains an art which everyone must learn, and which no one can teach. – Havelock Ellis
Life is just one damned thing after another! – Author unknown, c.1909, see quoteinvestigator.com/2015/09/02/life-one
Living involves tearing up one rough draft after another. – Author unknown
My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. – Louis Adamic
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. – Dennis P. Costea,Jr.
…the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse. – Walt Whitman, “O Me! O Life!”, Leaves of Grass
Life is the game that must be played. – Edwin Arlington Robinson
There is no wealth but life. – John Ruskin
I know what things are good: friendship and work and conversation. These I shall have. – Rupert Brooke
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. – Jerome K. Jerome
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. – Henry David Thoreau
Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool. – Gioacchino Rossini
We mourn the transitory things and fret under the yoke of the immutable ones. – Paul Eldridge
Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
