He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” —Josh Billings

“The best gift anyone can give, I believe, is the gift of sharing themselves.” —Oprah

“The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” —Oprah

“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

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” —Albert Einstein

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” —Maya Angelou

“Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.” —Mary Oliver

“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” ―Mary Oliver

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” —Confucius

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” —Marie Curie

“You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” —Vernon Howard

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” —Henry David Thoreau

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.” —Socrates

“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” —E. M. Forster

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.” —Ernest Holmes

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Throughout life, people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.” —Will Smith

“If life were predictable, it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” —Emily Dickinson