You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
                       —Douglas Adams

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're
     free to live. You no longer care about your reputation.
     You no longer care except so far as your life can be used
     tactically to promote a cause you believe in.
                       —Saul Alinsky

Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day
     you will be right.
                       —Robert Anthony

Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is
     finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
                       —Richard Bach
 
 

     What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed
     by death.
                       —Dave Barry

     The moment you're born you're done for.
                       —Arnold Bennett

     Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing
     those you hold well.
                       —Josh Billings

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
                       —Napoleon Bonaparte

     All of the animals except man know that the principal
     business of life is to enjoy it.
                       —Samuel Butler

     Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from
     insufficient premises.
                       —Samuel Butler

     There are two great rules in life, the one general and the
     other particular. The first is that every one can in the end
     get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule.
     The particular rule is that every individual is more or less
     of an exception to the general rule.
                       —Samuel Butler

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
     possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
                       —James Branch Cabell

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
                       —M. Kathleen Casey

     Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
                       —Maurice Chevalier

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
                       —e. e. cummings

     A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not
     discovered the value of life.
                       —Charles Darwin

     There are only two ways to live your life. One is as
     though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though
     everything is a miracle.
                       —Albert Einstein

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
                       —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

     Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the
     only animal that is struck with the difference between
     what things are, and what they ought to be.
                       —William Hazlitt

     The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of
     it alive.
                       —Robert A. Heinlein
                       Job: A Comedy of Justice, 1984

     There is no time like the pleasant.
                       —Oliver Herford

     If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are
     alive.
                       —Elbert Hubbard

     How a person masters his fate is more important than
     what his fate is.
                       —Wilhelm von Humboldt

     Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in
     nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience
     it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
     exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
                       —Helen Keller

     Life is short. Live it up.
                       —Nikita Khruschev

     Life is about timing.
                       —Carl Lewis

     Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
                       —Peter McWilliams
                       You Can't Afford the Luxury of
                       a Negative Thought [Rev. Ed.],
                       1995

     It's your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to
     be contagious.
                       —Peter McWilliams
                       You Can't Afford the Luxury of
                       a Negative Thought [Rev. Ed.],
                       1995

hat which does not kill me makes me stronger.
                       —Friedrich Nietzsche
                       The Twilight of the Idols, 1888

     People living deeply have no fear of death.
                       —Anais Nin

     I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get
     on with it.
                       —Sir Laurence Olivier

     Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
                       —Ayn Rand
                       Atlas Shrugged, 1957

     Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the
     power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity
     of choice.
                       —Ayn Rand
                       Atlas Shrugged, 1957

     Life is pain...anyone who says differently is selling
     something.
                       —Dread Pirate Roberts

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow
     old because we stop playing.
                       —George Bernard Shaw

     There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you
     want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of
     mankind achieve the second.
                       —Logan Pearsall Smith

     I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
     to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could
     not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to
     die, discover that I had not lived.
                       —Henry David Thoreau
                       Walden, 1854