How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver
You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave. – Quentin Crisp
The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. – Thomas Jefferson
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. – Henry Van Dyke
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. – Henry Miller
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work. – Thich Nhat Hanh
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. – Henry Ward Beecher
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people, I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if it needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. – Nelson Mandela
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values. – Norman Thomas
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one. – Oliver Wendell Holmes The Poet at the Breakfast Table
What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play. Life is a Cabaret, old chum. Come to the Cabaret. – Fred Ebb and John Kander
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it. – Jean de La Bruyère
There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those. – Unknown
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. – Martin Luther King Jr.
