There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. – Arnold Schwarzenegger
Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities. – Friedrich Nietzsche
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain – and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain. – Tony Robbins
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live. – Omar N. Bradley
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. – Henry David Thoreau
The lie is a condition of life. – Friedrich Nietzsche
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. – Abraham Maslow
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. – Zig Ziglar
Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life. – Marilu Henner
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life – mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. – Julius Erving
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations. – Zig Ziglar
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first. – Ginger Rogers
Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. – Henry Miller
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak. – Paul Wellstone
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. – Henry David Thoreau
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. – Henry David Thoreau
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? – Henry David Thoreau
