John Ruskin

"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."

William James

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

Emily Dickinson

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

e. e. cummings

"Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up."

Barbara Kingsolver

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, I used everything you gave me."

Erma Bombeck

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Mark Twain

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies."

Erich Fromm

"Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it."

Barbara Kingsolver

"You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave."

Quentin Crisp

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."

Albert Camus