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

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

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.- Seneca

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

Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it.- Tom Lehrer

A useless life is an early death.- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.- Norman MacEwan

Life on the planet is born of woman.- Adrienne Rich

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.- Marcus Aurelius

Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.- Alan Bennett