What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
-Nelson Mandela "Nelson Mandela"
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.
-Dalai Lama Xiv
Surely my prayer and my sacrifice and my life and my death are (all) for Allah, the Lord of the worlds.
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
-Jean Paul Sartre
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
-Alfred Adler
Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
-Katharine Hepburn
"Me: Stories of My Life"
This isn't life in the fast lane. It's life in the oncoming traffic.
-Terry Pratchett
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
-Leo Tolstoy
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
-Helen Keller