Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. Alan Bennett:

Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.  Amelia Burr

Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. Carl Sandburg

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer. Colette

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. Dorothy Thompson

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard