"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats..."
— Albert Schweitzer

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
— Albert Einstein

"The more I see, the less I know for sure."
— John Lennon

"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
— Douglas Coupland (Shampoo Planet)

"No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.
Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.
This is all practice."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
— Oscar Wilde

"Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
— T.S. Eliot

"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"
— John Keats

"to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it.
When grief sits with you, its tropical heat
thickening the air, heavy as water
more fit for gills than lungs;
when grief weights you like your own flesh
only more of it, an obesity of grief,
you think, How can a body withstand this?
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again."
— Ellen Bass

"Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it."
— Suzanne Weyn (Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium)

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting."
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (Demon in My View)

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you"
— Annie Dillard

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"A girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of."
— Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)

"When all else fails, there's always delusion."
— Conan O'Brien

"Life is a long lesson in humility."
— James M. Barrie

"Life is hard. After all, it kills you."
— Katharine Hepburn (Me : Stories of My Life)

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
— C.S. Lewis

"Life itself is the proper binge."
— Julia Child

"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuosly until death do them part"
— George Bernard Shaw

"You can get all A's and still flunk life."
— Walker Percy (The Second Coming: A Novel)

"Love is not a feeling it is an ability"
— Steve Carell

"I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong."
— D.H. Lawrence (Women in Love)