It is the friends you can call at 4am that matter!
Trixie

Things that matter most must never be put at the mercy of those that matter the least.
Goethe

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still.
Lou Erickson (Thanks Chris!)

Life is only a word people say, You only know you are alive when you find a person to share it with

Learn from the mistakes others make, you won't live long enough to make them all yourself!

The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can't go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind

Live life like you're going to die today, dream like your going to live forever.

The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes their way.

Life is full of hard choices, all you can do is choose a path and never look back.
Reader contribution.

Life is an art work without an eraser
Reader contribution, thanks "greekangel"

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life
Leo Buscaglia

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joan Crawford

When life gives you lemons, its your choice of how you use them.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift, that's why they call it the present.

Life is not just all about achieving and getting things that you want,it is all about how much that you can give to the others with your heart

Corner a frightened animal and it will inevitably hurt you

Worldly gain, spiritual loss

a mixed box of nuts and bolts, all sorts of threads and sizes, a few do the job, others remain unused for decades, some just won't fit anything.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein

Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
-- Leon Trotsky

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi

Speed is Great,
it is a sudden stop that can be a problem!

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Albert Einstein

The reality of some is an illusion for others

Life - Nobody gets out alive!

While Stubborness shelters one from reality, openmindedness reveals all of life's truths

In a world where you can be anything, be yourself

To live life to the fullest - KEEP BREATHING!

"It's not the things you don't know that fool you. It's the things you do know that ain't so"
Josh Billings

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
bk21please

imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality
Jules de Gaultier

Never argue with an idiot, people watching might not know the difference

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is buy a replacement.

If you must choose between to evils, Pick the one you haven't tried before.

if you lend someone money and never see them again, it was probably worth it.