.You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act.
Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Ben Stein

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.
Dick Werthimer

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment"

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950)

Life is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)

Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
Henry J. Tillman
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
Life is a long lesson in humility.

James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon (1940 - 1980), "Beautiful Boy"
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas (1884 - 1968)