Living

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Choose the life that is most useful and habit will make it the most agreeable

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me

There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living

I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear