Life is not a having and getting, but a being and a becoming. 
-M. Arnold 
  
To him that lives well answered the hermit. every from of life is good. 
-Proverb 
  
We live in deeds, not in years, in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 
-Bailey 
  
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards 
-Kierkegaard. 
  
What trifling coil do we poor mortals keep;
Wake, eat and drink, evacuate and sleep. 
-Prior 
  
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf. 
-Tagore 
  
Hurried and worried until we’re buried, and there’s no curtain call, # Life’s a very funny proposition after all. 
-M. G. Cohan. 
  
When I hear somebody sigh that `life is hard’ I am always tempted to ask `Compared to what?’ 

-Sydney Harris 
  
What makes life worth the living
Is our giving and forgiving . 
-T. G. Springer 

Life is the game that must be played:
This truth at least, good friends, we know; So live and laugh, nor be dismayed
As one by one the phantoms go. 
-E. R. Robinson