“Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.”

“This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down.”

Ben Okri The Famished Road

“When God puts love and compassion in your heart toward someone, He’s offering you an opportunity to make a difference in that person’s life. You must learn to follow that love. Don’t ignore it. Act on it. Somebody needs what you have.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

“I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything hes got.”

Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) American broadcast journalist

“With drugs, I think the sort of person that would die from an overdose is gonna die soon enough anyway, because they’ve got that will to destroy what’s left of their life.”

Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist

“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Every person's life is theirs by right. An individual's life can and must belong only to to himself, not to any society or community, or he is then but a slave.”

Terry Goodkind (1948) American novelist

“What do you want from me?" he asks.
What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him.
More.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist

“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”

Dion Fortune (1890–1946) British occultist and author