I think that as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time - at peril of being judged not to have lived. - Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Life is neither good nor evil - It is simply the place where good and evil exist. - Seneca

Life is a test; and this world - a place of trial. - Winston Churchill

The web of our life is of a mingled yam - good and ill together. - Shakespeare

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - T.S. Eliot

Life is not so important as the duties of life. - John Randolph

The fool, with all his other faults, has this also - He is always getting ready to live. - Epicurus

Anyone can carry his burden however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work however hard, for one day. Anyone can live - sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely - till the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means. - Robert Lewis Stevenson (?)

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

...The fullness of life is in the hazards of life. And at the worst, there is that in us which can turn defeat into victory. - Edith Hamilton

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life - One problem after another presents itself, and in solving of them, we can find our greatest pleasure. - Karl Menninger

The mind that is cheerful at present will not have worries for the future, and will meet the bitter occurrences of life with a smile. - Horace

Yes! Life is a banquet; and most poor sons-of-*itches are starving to death. Live! - Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee

All of the animals, excepting man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. - Samuel Butler

...The Giver of Life... gave it for happiness, and not for wretchedness. - Thomas Jefferson

The mass of men lead quiet lives of desperation. - Henry David Thoreau

Life is a romantic business. It is painting a picture, not doing a sum... But you have to make the romance and it will come to the question how much fire you have in your belly. - Oliver Wendell Homes