Life is filled with seasons and this is a different season. ~ Tom Brokaw, NY Times, 11/14/04
Live in the active voice, rather than in the passive. Think more about what you make happen than what is happening to you. ~ William De Witt Hyde
My old man taught me two things: "Mind own business" and "Always cut cards." ~ Robert A. Heinlein
Life is a horizontal fall. ~ Jean Cocteau
Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to. ~ Carly Simon
Life is a series of tests. We have to pass each one to move on to the next. As we move higher on the mastery scale, we take the chance of falling harder and longer. ~ Nancy Morgan, Masters of Success
Life is not a final. It's daily pop quizzes. ~ Ann Crittenden, Leadership Begins at Home
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean question: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well - or ill? ~ John Steinbeck
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well. ~ Jack London, To Build a Fire