"Live your life as though there is great joy to be experience, and abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you." - Meladee McCarty

"Sometimes I wonder about my life. I lead a small life. Well, valuable, but small. And sometimes I wonder, do I do it because I like it, or because I haven't been brave? So much of what I see reminds me of something I read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? I don't really want an answer. I just want to send this question out into the void. So goodnight dear void." - You've Got Mail

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so very hard to live for our deaths bring no pleasure on the world."

-John Steinbeck

"Live each season as it passes. Breath the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, but resign yourself to the influence of each other." -Henry David Thoreau

"Invictus"

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the Pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll.

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul. 

-William Ernest Hemmingway

"There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval." - George Santayana

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

"We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is for everybody to forget it."

"Do or do not there is no try." - Yoda

"Every song has a CODA, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away. Every song ends. Is that any reason not to enjoy the music? The truth is, there is nothing to be afraid of. It's just life."

 - Ellie, One Tree Hill

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the most, the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life that you deserve and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is possible. It is yours." - Ayn Rand

"For a time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time to be served, a dept to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on my that these obstacles were my life." 

- Alfred D. Souza