Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. – Learned Hand
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. – Søren Kierkegaard
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity. – Seneca
Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut. – Albert Einstein
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. – Anaïs Nin
Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Life is a horizontal fall. – Jean Cocteau
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. – Dr.Seuss
Only a few things are really important. – Marie Dressler
The movement of life has to rest in its own music. – Rabindranath Tagore
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. – Henry Miller
Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little. – Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. – Terri Guillemets
Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com
Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
If you stop struggling, then you stop life. – Huey Newton
Sometimes questions are more important than answers. – Nancy Willard, quoted in The Meaning of Life, compiled by Hugh S. Moorhead