The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell
One man in his time plays many parts.
William Shakespeare
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
Goethe
One returns to the place one came from.
Jean de la Fontaine
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
Nelson Henderson
It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
Lionel Trilling
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
At any given moment life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, tending in a certain direction.
Aldous Huxley
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.
Oscar Wilde
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
George Whitefield
My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.
Josh Billings
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael
All of life is more or less what the French would call s’imposer – to be able to create one’s own terms for what one does.
Kenneth Tynan
The power of habit and the charm of novelty are the two adverse forces which explain the follies of mankind.
Comtesse Diane
Real life seems to have no plots.
Ivy Compton-Burnett