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- The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
- William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day
- Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used.
- Richard Byrd
- The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
- E. V. Lucas
- Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
- Lillian Dickson
- ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Twilight of the Idols (1888).
- Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
- Richard Bach
- Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
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