A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Ralph Waldo Emerson All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. Henry Ellis Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out. Anton Chekhov Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. William James But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless eni gma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it ha d an underlying truth. Umberto Eco Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on th e present moment. Buddha Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain Every man dies. Not every man really lives. William Wallace Everything has been figured out, except how to live. Jean-Paul Sartre Everything in life is luck. Donald Trump Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist. Karen Horney God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. Garrison Keillor He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're al ive, it isn't. Richard Bach I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire t o enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. E. B. White I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I love life because what more is there. Anthony Hopkins I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the wa lks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. John Burroughs I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. Charles M. Schulz "What is this life if full of care; we have no time to stand and stare." These f amous lines from the poem Leisure by W H Davis sum up my attitude towards life. The life we lead must be worth living. Find out what famous personalities think about life, with these famous life quotes. A Zen Saying Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. Ernest L. Woodward So great has been the endurance, so incredible the achievement, that, as long as the sun keeps a set course in heaven, it would be foolish to despair of the hum an race. Ralph Waldo Emerson So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours. Samuel Johnson Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion. Thomas Fuller Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. Jane Rubietta Someone may have stolen your dream when it was young and fresh and you were inno cent. Anger is natural. Grief is appropriate. Healing is mandatory. Restoration is possible. Stephen Covey Strength lies in differences, not in similarities. Kenneth Hildebrand Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes. Vincent Lombardi Success demands singleness of purpose. Booker T. Washington Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in li fe as by the obstacles which he has overcome. Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting som ewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us . -- Thomas L. Holdcroft

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Chur chill Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. -- G andhiji Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. - Ann Landers Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual l ife.-- Buddha Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you plan to stop peddl ing.-- Claude Pepper It is not length of life, but depth of life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. -- Bill Baughan The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to beg in it. -- Anonymous For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real l ife. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten throu gh first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life .-- Alfred D. Souza In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper si de with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, an d what it ordains is seldom our goal. -- Nisami Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on th e present moment. -- Buddha 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 All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is t o enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -Josh Billings A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up . -- Albert Schweitzer Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. -- Anonymous Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in yo ur years.-- Abraham Lincoln 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

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracl e. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway. -- Steven Coallier Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go f or broke.-- Eliot Wiggington Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man liv es a pure life, nothing can destroy him. -- Buddha In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. -- S id Caesar Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyways. -- Anonymous

A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they're not so good, and sympathizes wi th your problems when they're not so bad. ~Arnold H. Glasgow Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the m iddle we became the best of friends. ~Author Unknown A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. ~D onna Roberts Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown Soul-mates are people who bring out the best in you. They are not perfect but a re always perfect for you. ~Author Unknown If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder . If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be you r smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. ~Author Unknown A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. ~Grace Pulp it There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. ~ Author Unknown The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a

word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. ~A uthor Unknown A true friend is one who thinks you are a good egg even if you are half-cracked. ~Author Unknown Friends are kisses blown to us by angels. ~Author Unknown It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. ~Marlene Dietrich A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart. ~Attributed to Heat her Pryor What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. ~Aristotle I like her because she smiles at me and means it. ~Anonymous Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "N othing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A .A. Milne Hold a true friend with both your hands. ~Nigerian Proverb Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave fo otprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. ~Flavia Weedn, Forever , Flavia.com Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone w ho will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~Oprah Winfrey A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. ~Lois Wyse A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself. ~Frances Ward Wel ler A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknow n

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. ~Eustache Deschamps You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn 't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things yo u can be. ~Douglas Pagels A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. ~Leo Buscaglia Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty. ~Sicilian Proverb The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. ~Elisabeth Foley When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tende r hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusio n, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate no t knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerless ness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst int o flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~Albert Schweitzer True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. ~Dave Tys on Gentry Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ~Virginia Woolf The language of friendship is not words but meanings. ~Henry David Thoreau She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind. ~Toni Morrison, Beloved Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. ~Plau tus If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thoug ht into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~George MacDonald Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the ne

ver needing to say is what counts. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck, Answer Without Ceasin g Yes we are [friends] and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and incon sequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often. I don't want to los e this happy space where I have found someone who is smart and easy and doesn't bother to check her diary when we arrange to meet. ~Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body, 1992 It takes a long time to grow an old friend. ~John Leonard The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. ~William Blake A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldl y, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeabl y. ~William Penn I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship wa s that one had to explain nothing. ~Katherine Mansfield We have been friends together In sunshine and in shade. ~Caroline Sheridan Norton Friends are the sailors who guide your rickety boat safely across the dangerous waters of life. ~Sare and Cate The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away. ~Barbara Kingsolver There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, h owever dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. ~Edith Wharton I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the frie nd who for me does not consult his calendar. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.c om Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arriv e. ~Anis Nin It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friendship is one mind in two bodies. ~Menclus In my friend, I find a second self. ~Isabel Norton A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may dro p even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and s ift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the res t away. ~Dinah Craik I felt it shelter to speak to you. ~Emily Dickinson No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~Marcel Proust