You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Charlie Chaplin

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau

creature, alive, dead, preserve, life

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

H.L.Mencken

The basic fact about human

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

Mark Twain

LIFE, LIVING

I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Laurence Sterne

life, eyes, simple

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Euripides

life, own

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.