Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least, good friends, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
His saying was: live and let live.
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
May you live all the days of your life.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
The white flower of a blameless life.
Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.
Men know life too early, women know life too late.
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.