Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage - it can be delightful.	George Bernard Shaw
	It is easy to say no. To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows.	Sophocles, "Antigone"
Rita Mae Brown		I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.	Arthur Ashe
	I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.	Agatha Christie
Unknown		Life is a struggle for those who want more than life itself.
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.	Colette
	May you live all the days of your life.	Jonathan Swift
Les Brown		A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing.
The purpose of life is life.	Karl Lagerfeld
	Three things in human life are important: The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.	Henry James
"Shawshank Redemption"		Get busy living, or get busy dying. Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free.
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who survive; the 'learned' find themselves fully equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.	Eric Hoffer
	The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.	Benjamin Mays
William James		Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
So far I haven't heard of anybody who wants to stop living on account of the cost.	Frank McKinney Hubbard
	Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.	Unknown
Vauvenarges		To achieve great things, we must live as though we were never going to die.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.	Robert Frost
	Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and hour.	Stephen Leacock
Unknown		My life has a superb cast, but I can't figure out the plot.
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.	Ellen Glascow
	Life is, perhaps, after all, nothing more than the happiness that you get out of it.	Sophocles
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy		Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.	Annie Dillard
	We must never try to escape the obligation of living at our best.	Janet Erskine Stuart
Joe E. Lewis		You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.
Don't ask what the world needs. Rather ask what makes you come alive. Then go ahead and do that. For what the world needs is people who are alive.	Unknown
	Life's way too serious to be taken seriously.	Dr. Gary Gear
Betty Friedan		I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserved my right to be frivolous.
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.	Edith Wharton
	Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.	Anonymous
Anonymous		The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.	Corita Kent
	Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.	Gloria Swanson
Emily Dickinson		The mere sense of living is joy enough.
If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.	Immanuel Hermann Fichte
	Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.	Christian Gellert
Cavett Roberts		If you don't think every day is a good day, just try missing one.
Life is a verb, not a noun.	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
	Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives.	A. Sachs