Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. - Walter Anderson. View more images...

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - that is to have succeeded - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open. - Rose Lane. View more images...

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. - Layne Staley. View more images...

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. - William James. View more images...

We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all of mankind - Franklin D. Roosevelt. View more images...

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. - Joanna Field. View more images...

It seems to be a law of American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic - Russell Baker. View more images...

General Grant had a simple, childlike [recipe] for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too. - Sherwood Anderson. View more images...

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself. - John Harold. View more images...

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical. - Ralph Waldo Emerson. View more images...

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind. - Margaret Mead. View more images...

I have an existential map; it has you are here written all over it. - Steven Wright. View more images...

The way to know life is to love many things. - Vincent Van Gogh. View more images...

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope. View more images...