Life

Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height. - Mahatma Gandhi

The shaping of our own life is our own work. It is a thing of beauty, or a thing of shame, as we ourselves make it. - Henry Ware

Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. - Hugh Sidey 

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, he whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop. - Alfred Polgar

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? - George Eliot

He most lives who thinks the most, feels the noblest, acts the best. - P. J. Baley

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains. - Marquis de Vauvenargues

Everyone sings the song of life off key every once in awhile. - Caroline Yawn 

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. - Byrd Baggett

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. - Somerset Maugham

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. - William James

Each stage of life brings with it new needs, belief, attitudes and responses. - Leo Buscaglia

Rest not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe