"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain

"The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
— Lily Tomlin

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you."
— Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty)

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

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it."
— Henry Rollins

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
— Mark Twain

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living"
— Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

"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

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
— John Lennon

" I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
— Albert Einstein

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
-Genesis 1:1"
— Various

"Men always makes gods in their own image."
— Xenophanes

"God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there."
— Angelus Silesius

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."
— Corrie Ten Boom