«Religion is not something separate and apart from ordinary life. It is life life of every kind viewed from the standpoint of meaning and purpose: life lived in the fuller awareness of its human quality and spiritual significance.»

A. Powell Davies

 

«Life is just a chance to grow a soul.»

A. Powell Davies

 

«Life on the planet is born of woman.»

Adrienne Rich

 

«Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.»

Alan Dean Foster

 

«All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.»

Albert Camus

 

«Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.»

Albert Einstein

 

«There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.»

Albert Schweitzer

 

«Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.Civilization and Ethics, 1949»

Albert Schweitzer

 

«Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.»

Amelia Burr

 

«Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.»

Anne Wilson Schaef

 

«Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.»

Arthur Rubinstein

 

«They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.»

Barbara De Angelis

 

«What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.»

Baruch Spinoza

 

«A good life is a main argument.»

Ben Jonson

 

«Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.»

Benjamin Disraeli

 

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that the stuff life is made of."Benjamin Franklin

 

«Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.»

Bernice Johnson Reagon

 

«The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.»

Bertrand Russell

 

«If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.»

Buddha

 

«There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.» Carl Jung

 

«Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.»

Carl Sandburg

 

«My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?»

Charles Schulz

 

«Life is nothing but a series of crosses for us mothers.»

Colette

 

«Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more.»

David Steindl-Rast

 

«Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.»

Dorothy Thompson

 

«Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.»

Edith Wharton

 

«Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...»

Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.»

Eleanor Roosevelt