I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington on life
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul. Caroline Kennedy on life
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. Leo Tolstoy on life
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right. Marianne Williamson on life
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. Bertrand Russell on life
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life. Jiddu Krishnamurti on life
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous. Wayne Dyer on life
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau on life
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection. Marilyn Monroe on life
Respect is one of life's greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don't have that? Marilyn Monroe on life
If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers! Marilyn Monroe on life
If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman. Marilyn Monroe on life
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. Marilyn Monroe on life
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. Albert Schweitzer on life
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. Joseph Campbell on life
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong. Tom Welling on life
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer. Arnold Schwarzenegger on life
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with. Robert Frost on life
I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments. Michael Landon on life