Sayings about Life

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen
Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer


What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies


Leisure.
The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra

When you're chewing on life's gristle
Don't grumble, give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best...
And...always look on the bright side of life...
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python's Life of Brian

The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth.
Chinese Proverb

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
Lillian Dickson

There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin

The moon belongs to everyone,
The best things in life are free,
The stars belong to everyone,
They gleam there for you and me.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson

Song from the Musical 'Good News'.Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Irish Saying

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno

From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere's Fan, Act I.
Where there is love there is life.
Indira Gandhi

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens

Our Mutual Friend.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

The best of times is now.
Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein