They that have lived a single day have lived an age. - Jean de la Bruyère. View more images...
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. - Benjamin Disraeli. View more images...
When we are no longer children we are already dead. - Constantin Brancusi. View more images...
She realized as a girl of eight that if she sat down and wrote her stories, she could escape the parts of life she didn't like, embroider the parts she did and thus control the life she had. - Dudley Clendinen. View more images...
Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes. - Unknown. View more images...
Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little - Thomas Aloysius Dorgan. View more images...
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times. - Helen Rowland. View more images...
Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies. - Adrienne Gusoff. View more images...
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. - Walter Anderson. View more images...
The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it. - Unknown. View more images...
It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it. - Barbara Kingsolver. View more images...
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. - Charles Caleb Colton. View more images...
Life is a voyage. - Victor Hugo. View more images...
The game of life is to come up a winner, to be a success, or to achieve what we set out to do. Yet there is always the danger of failing as a human being. - Richard Milhouse Nixon. View more images...