Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
The dearest days in one’s life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
We live in the world when we love it.
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Each day is the scholar of yesterday.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.
Life’s more amusing than we thought.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
I am all for the short and merry life.
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
Life is a gift, given in trust – like a child.
Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
My trade and art is to live.
I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.
Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
