What I must do is all that concerns me. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction - Friedrich Nietzsche. View more images...

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. - William Adams. View more images...

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. - Paulo Coelho. View more images...

The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she chanced to be fatigued, it had managed to murmur, 'Pathos, piety, courage -- they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.' - Richard. View more images...

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson. View more images...

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death: he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live. - Jean de LaBruyere. View more images...

Time is relative to where you are, what you do, and who you are waiting for. - Unknown. View more images...

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself - Graham Greene. View more images...

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten? - Logan P. Smith. View more images...

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it. - Bette Davis. View more images...

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some sideroad might be some trifle I'm entitled to? - Robert Brault. View more images...

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life. - Thomas Mann. View more images...

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. - Arthur Schopenhauer. View more images...

Adventure is the essence of life. - Dick Rutan. View more images...