Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
(D.H. Lawrence)

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then (one day (you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralyzed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then (one day (you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.
(Denis Leary)

Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
(Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone)

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
(Abraham Lincoln)

And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
(Grandma Moses)

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
(Walter Prager)

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
(Rainer Maria Rilke)

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
(Tom Robbins)

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 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)