All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. —Samuel Butler

Before I knew the best part of my life had come, it had gone.

                                                                                      —Asleigh Brilliant

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.            —William James

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would be different.      —Katherine Mansfield

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.                                           —Lin Yutang

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.        —Thomas Szasz

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever...               —Isak Dinesen

It’s a shallow life that doesn’t have any scars.  —Garrison Keillor

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.                                                                                            —Shari R. Barr

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.  —Arthur Ashe

I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

                                                                                        —Joan Chittister

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

                                                                                                  —Bob Dylan