"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well." -Josh Billings

"The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live." -Joan Borysenko

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." -Buddha

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." -John Burroughs

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." -Robert Byrne

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All life is an experiment." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." -Millard Fuller

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." -Mahatma Gandhi

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." -William James

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact." -William James

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." -William James

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." -W. M. Lewis

"Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. 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

"Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive." -Warren Miller

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." -Jean-Paul Sartre

"Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be." -Jeremy Schwartz

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." -Socrates

For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever. -Laura Swenson

"May you live every day of your life." -Jonathan Swift