All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.

—Samuel Butler

Any idiot can handle a crisis — it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.

—Anton Chekhov

You can get all A’s and flunk life.

—Walker Percy

While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.

—Angela Schwindt

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

—Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

—Vaclav Havel

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone

—Reba McIntyre

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

—Antoine de Saint Exupery

The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.

—Henry Moore

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

—H. Jackson Brown

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

—Henry David Thoreau

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

–William James

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world… By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

–Albert Schweitzer

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

– Eleanor Marx