Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
—Sydney Smith
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
—John Irving
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
—Henry J. Tillman
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything—or nothing.
—Nancy Astor
I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.
—Louis Sachar in Holes
Those were the days when dreams were sweet and life was sweeter still.
—Lisa Schroeder in Chasing Brooklyn
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
—René Magritte
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
—Thornton Wilder
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
—R. D. Laing
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
You need to stop feeling sorry for yourself. I don't say this as a condemnation—I need regular reminders to stop feeling sorry for myself too. I'm going to address you bluntly, but it's a directness that rises from my compassion for you, not my judgement of you. Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things have befallen you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.
—Cheryl Strayed in Tiny Beautiful Things
How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw away a life.
—Unknown
To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.
—William James
Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming.
—Virgil
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind!
—Henri Frederic Amiel