“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“When you're knocked on your back and you life's a flop,
When you're down on the bottom and there's nothing else but to shout to the top!”

Paul Weller (singer) (1958) English singer-songwriter, Guitarist

“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

“If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.”

Greg McKeown (author) book Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

“You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

“…having children changes your life like nothing else. It'll be the hardest and best thing you've ever done.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask… with nothing beneath it?”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

“When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”

Augusten Burroughs book Dry

“All your problems come down to love. Your love life is what your problem is, and everybody else's on earth. God in existence is man and woman. There's nothing else. And unless you have loved God in existence - your duality which is woman or man - unless you have united with that through love and devotion without going through your feelings of love, you're not going to be enlightened.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer