Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. ~Jean De La Bruyère

Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end, you have nothing. ~Yiddish proverb
*sniff* It makes you cry too!

Life may not be beautiful but it is interesting.
~Sir John Robert Seeley

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
~Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. ~Mark Twain (1835-1910)

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
~William Cowper (1731-1800)

Der Zweck des Lebens ist das Lebens selbst.
The aim of living is life itself. ~J. W. von Goethe

Nulla autem causa vitae est...si timeatur quantum potest.
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
~Seneca, Epistles

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? ~George Eliot

To lose one's wealth is sad indeed
To lose one's health is more
To lose one's soul is such a loss
as no man can restore

The present only is our own
Live, Love, toil with a will
Place no faith in "Tomorrow"--
for the clock may then be still
~? (Unaccredited)

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
~Yiddish proverb

What would life be if no man had the courage to attempt anything? ~Vincent Van Gogh

Life is one long process of getting tired.
~Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod.
A useless life is an early death.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

You only live once. And the way I live, once is enough.
~Frank Sinatra (1915-1998)

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
~Charles A. Lindberg (1902-1974)

Luck

When Luck enters, give him a seat! ~Jewish proverb

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
~Oprah Winfrey

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.
~Wilson Mizner

Give me, mother, luck at my birth, then throw me if you will on the rubbish heap. ~Bulgarian proverb

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favouring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.
~John Dewey

It would seem that you don't (sic) be having any good luck until you believe there is no such thing as luck in it at all.
~Irish proverb