Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. – Henry Ward Beecher

Life is like a trumpet – if you dont put anything into it, you dont get anything out of it. – William Christopher Handy

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. – Michel de Montaigne