Quotes on Existence

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. - Agatha Christie

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? - Charles Schultz

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. - Elbert Hubbard

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. - Henry Van Dyke

You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. - Joan Baez

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. - Leo Buscaglia

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. - Margaret Fuller

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life? - Mary Oliver

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin

Life begets life. Energy becomes energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. - Sarah Bernhardt

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. - Guillaume Apollinaire

I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is." - Kurt Vonnegut

Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. - David Steindl-Rast

Because you are alive, anything is possible. - Thich Nhat Hanh