We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.