"Live not for the battles won.
Live not for the-end-of-the-song.
Live in the along."
(Gwendolyn Brooks)

"Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along and nibble your brain."
(Louis-Ferdinand Céline)

"Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror."
(Byrd Baggett)

"Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it."
(Wilhelm Reich)

"Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have."
(Jean-Paul Sartre)

"Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, burried at 60.'"
(Nicholas Murray Butler)

"The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age."
(George Orson Welles)

"The first twenty-five years of your life, you're in awe of others. For the next twenty-five, you want others to be in awe of you. After that, you could hardly give a damn."
(Arthur Lotti)

"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool."
(Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Lester Bangs, Almost Famous, 2000)

"The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
(Jack London)