A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
James Allen
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
한 시간을 감히 낭비하는(dare to waste one hour of time) 사람은 인생의 가치를 발견하지 못한(have not discovered the value of life) 사람이다.
All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
Henry Ellis
Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
과거에 머물지 말고(do not dwell in the past), 미래에 대해 몽상하지 말고(do not dream of the future),현재 순간에 마음을 집중해라(concentrate the mind on the present moment).
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.
Richard Bach
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White
I do not regret one moment of my life.
Lillie Langtry
I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.
나는 간단한 철학(a simple philosophy)을 가지고 있다. 빈 것은 채워라(fill what’s empty). 꽉 찬 것은 비워라(empty what’s full). 가려운 곳은 긁어줘라(scratch where it itches).
I love life because what more is there.
Anthony Hopkins
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.
John Burroughs
I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that’s living.
Ursula Andress
I think I’ve discovered the secret of life – you just hang around until you get used to it.
Charles M. Schulz
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It’s all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
Philip Green
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Josh Billings
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
인생은 현명한 사람에게는 꿈(a dream for the wise)이고, 어리석은 자에겐 게임(a game for the fool)이며, 부자에겐 코미디(a comedy for the rich)이고, 가난한 이에겐 비극(a tragedy for the poor)이다.
Life is a long lesson in humility.
James M. Barrie
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
인생은 3막이 고약하게 쓰여진(with a badly written third act) 적당하게 괜찮은 연극(a moderately good play)이다.
Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
Dave Barry
Life is but thought.
Sara Teasdale
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
인생은 그게 무엇인가 알기 전에(before we know what it is) 절반이 지나간다(be half spent).
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
Abraham Cahan
Life is never easy for those who dream.
인생은 꿈꾸는 사람들에겐 결코 쉽지 않다(be never easy for those who dream).
Life is something to do when you can’t get to sleep.
Fran Lebowitz
Life is wasted on the living.
Douglas Adams
Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.
Karen Horney
Life loves the liver of it.
Maya Angelou
Life must be lived as play.
Plato
Life well spent is long.
Leonardo da Vinci
Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you’re not alive.
Mel Brooks
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
Arthur Miller
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
Cary Grant
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
Socrates
Only a few things are really important.
Marie Dressler
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
살아가는 기술(the art of living)은 댄스라기보다는 레슬링에 더 가깝다(be more like wrestling than dancing).
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 fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
William Lyon Phelps
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
어느 것의 가치라는 것(the price of anything)은 당신이 그 것과 바꾸는 인생의 양이다(the amount of life you exchange for it).
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung
There is no wealth but life.
John Ruskin
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
긴 인생과 훌륭한 저녁식사의 유일한 차이(only one difference between a long life and a good dinner)는 저녁식사엔달콤한 것이 마지막에 나온다는(the sweets come last) 것이다.
Robert Louis Stevenson
This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
William James
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Emily Dickinson
Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.
e. e. cummings
Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
Karl A. Menninger
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work – that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
Lauryn Hill
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
Max de Pree
What we play is life.
Louis Armstrong
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‘I used everything you gave me’.
내 인생이 끝나 신 앞에 섰을 때(stand before God at the end of my life) "당신께서 주신 모든 것을 사용했습니다(I used everything you gave me)"라고 말할 수 있도록단 한 조각의 남은 재능도 없기를(would not have a single bit of talent left) 바란다.
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
While there’s life, there’s hope.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
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.
Albert Camus
Your life is what your thoughts make it.
Marcus Aurelius