The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living. Edgar Watson Howe
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow. Kabbalah
We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the tree of knowledge, but also because we have not eaten of the tree of life. Franz Kafka
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc. Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. H.L. Mencken
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light! Edna Saint Vincent Millay
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. Wilson Mizner
Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, Although they come and go by day, Are like the smith's bellows: They take breath but are not alive. Nagarjuna
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. Jawaharial Nehru