Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

Henry Ellis

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out."

Anton Chekhov

"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

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

William James

"But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

Umberto Eco

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

Buddha

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Mark Twain

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive."

Warren Miller

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live."

Jean-Paul Sartre

"Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist."

Karen Horney

"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."

Garrison Keillor

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

Richard Bach

"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

E. B. White

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."

John Burroughs

"I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it."

Charles M. Schulz

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."

Albert Einstein

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

Robert Frost

"Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?"

Karen Horney

"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Josh Billings

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

George Bernard Shaw

"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery