"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration but its donation." ~ Corrie ten Boom
I just eat life... I engage in life. ~ Tom Cruise
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~ Henry Miller
Live every day like it's your last, 'cause one day you're gonna be right. ~ Ray Charles, Esquire
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? --every, every minute? ~ Thornton Wilder, Our Town
Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for changes. ~ Johann von Goethe
All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live. ~ Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life. ~ Meryl Streep
I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life. ~ Richard Linklater, Utne, Spring 2003
There are many stages in life; Shakespeare narrates seven. I am not sure one age is better than another, as each has its own joys and sorrows. ~ Robert B. Phillips, Through My Picture Window