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Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety. It shows itself in acts rather than in words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations. Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come. She did not rebuke Jo with saintly speeches, only loved her better for her passionate affection, and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself. She could not say, I'm glad to go, for life was very sweet for her. She could only sob out, I try to be willing, while she held fast to Jo, as the first bitter wave of this great sorrow broke over them together.
-Louisa May Alcott
Little Women, ch. 36
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
-Sholom Aleichem
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you.
-Fred A. Allen
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A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
-James Allen
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Life is divided up into the horrible and the miserable.
-Woody Allen
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
-Henri Frederic Amiel
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Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
-Hans Christian Andersen
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I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
-Gillian Anderson
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: I'm with you kid. Let's go.
-Maya Angelou
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Life loves the liver of it.
-Maya Angelou
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
-Maya Angelou
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Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory.
-Susan B. Anthony
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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
-Minna Antrim
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
-Aristotle
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When we speak the word life, it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.
-Antonin Artaud
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The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Your life is what your thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius
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And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
-Richard Bach
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
-Francis Bacon
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can decide how you're going to live now.
-Joan Baez
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Life is always walking up to us and saying, 'Come on in, the living's fine,' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
-Russell Baker
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Books about Life
