#life

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Without music, life would be a mistake.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Live to the point of tears.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one.

He is free who lives as he chooses; who is neither subject to compulsion, nor hindrance, nor violence.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous.

Newborn children are soft and tender. When dead, they are stiff and hard. Ten thousand plants are soft and flexible. When dead, they are dry and brittle.

Hardness and rigidity are companions of death. Softness and flexibility are companions of life.

Let your love of life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

And life itself told me this secret: 'Behold,' it said, 'I am that which must always overcome itself.'

Art is the proper task of life.

Life is a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.

To breathe in, you must breathe out. To live, you must give up the clutch on life.

To be afraid of life is to be afraid of death. And to be afraid of death is to be unable to live.

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.

Every life is a story, whether it is written down or not.

The serious problems in life are never fully solved. If ever they should seem to be so, it is a sure sign that something has been lost.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

To live is to be questioned by life, and to answer is to live responsibly.

In the final analysis, living is nothing other than taking responsibility for finding the right answer to its problems and fulfilling the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

We must be willing to pay the price of admission to life, and that price is the risk of sorrow and disappointment.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.

They alone live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.