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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Henry James

Writer · American · 1843 – 1916

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

Philosopher · American · 1842 – 1910

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Mason Cooley

Writer · American

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

George W. Bush

President · American · b. 1946

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Rebecca West

Author · Irish · 1892 – 1983

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

Director · American · b. 1935

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Jonathan Swift

Writer · Irish · 1667 – 1745

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Albert Einstein

Physicist · German · 1879 – 1955

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

Albert Schweitzer

Theologian · German · 1875 – 1965

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Oscar Wilde

Dramatist · Irish · 1854 – 1900

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Charles Baudelaire

Poet · French · 1821 – 1867

By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

George Eliot

Author · British · 1819 – 1880

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Henry Miller

Author · American · 1891 – 1980

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poet · English · 1772 – 1834

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

Norman Cousins

Editor · American · b. 1915

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Dale Carnegie

Writer · American · 1888 – 1955

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Philosopher · French · 1623 – 1662

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.

Honore de Balzac

Novelist · French · 1799 – 1850

A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.

Thomas Hobbes

Philosopher · English · 1588 – 1679

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Bo Bennett

Businessman · American · b. 1972

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Albert Camus

Philosopher · French · 1913 – 1960

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

President · American · 1911 – 2004

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Benjamin Disraeli

Statesman · British · 1804 – 1881

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Horace

Poet · Roman

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Charles Dickens

Novelist · English · 1812 – 1870

The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.

Stanislav Grof

Psychologist · Czechoslovakian · b. 1931

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

Carl Jung

Psychologist · Swiss · 1875 – 1961

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Writer · American · 1809 – 1894

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Theodore Roosevelt

President · American · 1858 – 1919

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher · Scottish · 1795 – 1881

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.

Confucius

Philosopher · Chinese

I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

Jean Rostand

Scientist · French · 1894 – 1977

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Samuel Johnson

Author · English · 1709 – 1784

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

John F. Kennedy

President · American · 1917 – 1963

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Doug Coupland

Author · Canadian · b. 1961

No serious-minded man should have time for the mediocre in any phase of his living.

James Cash Penney

Businessman · American · 1875 – 1971

We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.

Franz Kafka

Novelist · Austrian · 1883 – 1924

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poet · American · 1809 – 1849

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady · American · 1884 – 1962

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

Psychologist · American · b. 1940

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet · German · 1749 – 1832

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

Albert Schweitzer

Theologian · German · 1875 – 1965

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Samuel Butler

Poet · British · 1835 – 1902

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Doug Coupland

Author · Canadian · b. 1961

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Eric Hoffer

Writer · American · 1902 – 1983

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau

Author · American · 1817 – 1862

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