Albert Einstein: “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Grandma Moses: “Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
RedSmith: “Dying is easy; the least of us can do that. Living is the trick.”
Jackie Robinson: “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
A. Bronson Alcott: “One must have lived greatly whose record would bear the full light of day from beginning to its close.”
John Burroughs: “LIfe is a struggle, but not a warfare.”
Emily Dickinson: “That it will never come again Is what makes life so sweet.”
Ralph W. Emerson: “We are always getting ready to live, but never living>”
Ralph W. Emerson: “Life consists in what man is thinking of all day.”
Benjamin Franklin: “Wish not so much to live long as to live well>”
Katherine Hepburn: “Without discipline, there’s no life at all.”
Oliver W. Holmes,Sr.: “Life is a great bundle of little things>”
Oliver W. Holmes,Jr.: “To live is to function. That is all there is in living>”
Elbert Hubbard: “Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.”
Robert G. Ingersoll: “Life is a shadowy, strange, and winding road.”
Henry James: “Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
John Lennon, attributed: “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.”
Karl Menninger: “Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.”
Jerry Rubin: “A life without surrender is a life without commitment.”
George Santayana: “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
Logan P. Smith: “There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
Henry D. Thoreau: “My life is like a stroll on the beach, As near the ocean’s edge as I can go.”
Mark Twain: “Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.”
And, from my friend, Bob Allen, this: “The Measure of Man” [author unknown]:
“Not – “How did he die?” But – “How did he live?”
Not – “What did he gain?” But – “What did he give?”
[note, all but the first four and the last quote, were from “The Harper Book of American Quotations, Carruth and Ehrlich]
With Justice For All 