“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die tomorrow!”

“Fear less, hope more;

Whine less, breathe more;

Talk less, say more;

Hate less, love more;

And all good things are yours.”

“Today is the Tomorrow you worried about yesterday…think about it…was it worth it?”

“Every time you wake up and ask yourself, “What good things am I going to do today?”, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.”

“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”

“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.”

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”

“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”

“Live to the point of tears…not only tears of sadness, but tears of joy as well.”

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.”

“Don’t take life seriously because you can’t come out of it alive ”

“Dance like there’s nobody watching

Love like you’ll never get hurt

Sing like there’s nobody listening

Live like it’s heaven on earth

And speak from the heart to be heard. “

Fran Lebowitz (1950 – )

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

P. J. O’Rourke (1947 – )

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Henry J. Tillman

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen (1935 – )

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

R. D. Laing

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 – 1928)

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard (1856 – 1915)

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I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock (1869 – 1944)

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Christopher Morley (1890 – 1957)

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea;

And love is a thing that can never go wrong;

And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), “Comment”

Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember.

Oscar Levant (1906 – 1972)

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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Rita Mae Brown

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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880)

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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Albert Schweitzer (1875 – 1965)

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.

C. P. Snow (1905 – 1980)

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Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)

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Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

George Burns (1896 – 1996)

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Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty.

Leo Rosten (1908 – )

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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950), “Man and Superman” (1903), act I

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One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

William Feather (1908 – 1976)