"It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time."
"There's nothing more confirming in your life than looking in front of you and seeing some really amazing people who you care a lot about who care a lot about you."
"We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."
"We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die, someone can say, she cared."
"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."
"The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived."
"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner."
"We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith."
"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."
"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development."
"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life."
"There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures."
"Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them."
"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
"Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate."
"Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it."
"We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better."
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality."
"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life."
"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use."
"Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution."
"The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation."
"It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness."
"Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
"Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness."
"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."
"In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life."
"The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well."
"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."