Idea Book
Life

Life Gets Away  Clint Black
What's This Life For?  Creed

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf  Tagore

Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is, is the only way of being happy  Jennie Jerome Churchill

Simplicity, clarity, singleness:  these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy  Richard Halloway

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while  Don Marquis

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing:  That Is enough for one man's life  T.S. Eliot

Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing  Jerome K. Jerome

There are three ingredients in the good life:  learning, earning and yearning  Christopher Morley

There is more to life than just existing and having a pleasant time  J.C.F. von Schiller

The best philosophy is to do one's duties, to take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is  Horace Walpole

Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance  Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval  George Santayana

To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy...is the true aim and end to life  Llewelyn Powers

All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!  Bob Newhart

This is life!  It can harden and it can exalt!  Henrik Ibsen

Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing  Socrates

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.  It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.  If you haven't had that, what have you had?  Henry James

All animals except man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it  Samuel Butler

You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough  Joe E. Lewis

Life is like an onion:  you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep  Carl Sandburg

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life.  It goes on.  Robert Frost

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans  Thomas la Mance

Live as if you were to die tomorrow  Latin proverb

Live and let live  German proverb

Live and learn  Italian proverb

Oh, how daily life is  Jules Laforgue