Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me. - Walt Whitman. View more images...

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest. - Henry David Thoreau. View more images...

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that. - Arthur Ashe. View more images...

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. - Dante Alighieri. View more images...

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. - Æschylus. View more images...

Remember this[,] very little is needed to make a happy life. - Marcus Aelius Aurelius. View more images...

Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward. - Viktor Frankl. View more images...

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. - Flora Whittemore. View more images...

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. - Charles M. Schulz. View more images...

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. - Henry Brooks Adams. View more images...

Life does not accomodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed desstroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -Florida Scott-Maxwell. - Florida Scott Maxwell. View more images...

If we don't know life, how can we know death? - Confucius. View more images...

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. - Felix Frankfurter. View more images...

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson. View more images...

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. - Thomas Wolfe. View more images...