Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of. ~ Josh Billings

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? ~ Henry James

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. ~ Walt Whitman

No one has success until he or she has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm, and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. ~ Lillian Witting

Unless you believe in reincarnation, this is your one shot. ~ Judy Sheindlin, Beauty Fades

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~ Agatha Christie

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day. ~ Barbara Sher

Life is "trying things to see if they work." ~ Ray Bradbury

I am the president of my own life. ~ Marie C. Wilson, O, March 2004

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