"As one climbs a mountain roadway, and looks off on the landscape through the forest trees or from some overtopping crag, at each step he sees more and more of the outlying beauty of field and lake and forest and hill and river, till he reaches the summit, where the whole vast scene opens to the view, and enthuses his soul with delight. So life should be a constant lookout, through the gray mists, through the falling shadows, through the running tears, till he comes to the shining top of life in God Himself, where the fogs lift, and the shadows fall, and the view is all undisturbed."

"The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him."

": To live is not a blessing, but to live well."

"What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are."

"There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair."

"Life involves suffering and transitoriness. No person can choose his age or the condition of his time. The past may rob the present of much joy and much mystery. The generation of Buchenwald and the Siberian labor camps cannot talk with the same optimism as its fathers. The bliss of Dante has been lost in our civilization."

"Life is not so important as the duties of life."

"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much."

"Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means."

": Make haste to live, and consider each day a life."

"J'ai vécu."

"Molestum est, semper vitam inchoare; male vivunt qui semper vivere incipiunt."

": The part of life which we really live is short."

": It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live."

": The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death."

": His saying was: live and let live."

"Vita, si scias uti, longa est."

"Ante senectutem curavi ut bene viverem, in senectute (curo) ut bene moriar; bene autem mori est libenter mori."

": I have survived."

": What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age."

"A few years hence and he will be beneath the sod; but those cliffs will stand, as now, facing the ocean, incessantly lashed by its waves, yet unshaken, immovable; and other eyes will gaze on them for their brief day of life, and then they, too, will close."

"Our life is scarce the twinkle of a star In God's eternal day."

"So his life has flowed From its mysterious urn a sacred stream, In whose calm depth the beautiful and pure Alone are mirrored; which, though shapes of ill May hover round its surface, glides in light, And takes no shadow from them."

"O vita, misero longa! felici brevis!"

"Gaudeamus igitur, Juvenes dum sumus Post jucundam juventutem. Post molestam senectutem. Nos habebit humus."

": The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart."

"Sein Spruch war: leben und leben lassen."

"From a boy I gloated on existence. Earth to me Seemed all-sufficient and my sojourn there One trembling opportunity for joy."

"Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est."

": Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough."

"Exigua pars est vitæ quam nos vivimus."

"Si ad naturam vivas, nunquam eris pauper; si ad opinionem, numquam dives."

": If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich."

": Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly."

"Non vivere bonum est, sed bene vivere."

"Atqui vivere, militare est."

": But life is a warfare."

"Non domus hoc corpus sed hospitium et quidem breve."

"Nemo quam bene vivat sed quam diu curat, cum omnibus possit contingere ut bene vivant, ut diu nulli."

"Nulli potest secura vita contingere qui de producenda nimis cogitat."

"Sapiens vivit quantum debet, non quantum potest."

"Quem mihi dabis qui aliquod pretium tempori ponat, qui diem aestimet, qui intellegat se cotidie mori?"

"Our biggest tragedy is not knowing what to do with our lives."

"In hoc enim fallimur, quod mortem prospicimus: magna pars eius iam praeterit; quidquid aetatis retro est mors tenet."

"Sikhs believe that human beings spend their time in a cycle of birth, life, and rebirth. They share this belief with followers of other Indian religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The quality of each particular life depends on the law of Karma. Karma sets the quality of a life according to how well or badly a person behaved in their previous life. The only way out of this cycle, which all faiths regard as painful, is to achieve a total knowledge of and union with God."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"Life and hope for the world are to be found only in the deeds of love."

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

"In short, in life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul and don't shirk, but hit the line hard!"