Life is ignominious whose memories of existence fades away
“The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.”
“Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.”
Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed. Short, therefore, is man's life, and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under your observation in life.
Our life is what our thoughts make of it.
Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
What is there to value in this life's vaporous glory?
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
... because between the centuries, I gained a drop of life.
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
My mistakes are my life.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.”
And, in the end, death is just a symptom that there was life.
Five minutes is enough to dream a whole life, time is so relevant.
There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.
A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.
What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.
With age, art and life become one.
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.
No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing.
Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
My life didn't please me, so I created my life.
Alexander created cities everywhere he passed: I have left dreams everywhere I have trailed my life.
There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.
The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
Life without celebrations is a distant road without an inn.
The world is a theater, life is a drama: You come, see and leave.
The relationships between consciousness and reality are extremely complex.... It is equally necessary to decolonize our minds, our inner life, at the same time that we decolonize society.
We forge the chains we wear in life.
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.
Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.
I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Poetry should express the apex, should constitute a kind of pioneering outpost in the unexplored area of life
While love, of any kind, lightens and sweetens life, hate darkens it, fills it with bitterness and make it nasty.
Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
It is the dignity with which one goes to his death that is remembered by all, What of life, it comes and goes.
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.
Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Wind, light and time ever revolve; Let us then enjoy life as best we can.
Separation by death must finally be choked down, but separation in life is a long anguish,
Where there is love there is life.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy. When work is a duty, life is slavery!
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned.
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.
Man is not something fixed or completed, but a being constantly shaped through choices, possibilities, and awareness of life itself.”
“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Life is short, art is long, opportunity is fleeting, experience misleading the judgment difficult.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.
Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work. ---- Whatever advice you give, be short.
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man
In sloth and strenuous amusements the pleasures are followed by sorrows, but the diligence of virtue and the prudent management of life always offer pure and safer pleasures.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.
The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.
Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
The meaning of life is that it stops.
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Life is a shower, it will pass.
Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble.
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Your hand can seize today, but not tomorrow; and thoughts of your tomorrow are nothing but desire. Don’t waste this breath, if your heart isn’t crazy, since "the rest of your life" won’t last forever
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
What is joy? The wish to live. The joy of life. Who care for awards!
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
Variety is life; uniformity is death
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. - Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
The aims of life are the best defense against death.
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life.
Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
“I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
Anarchy is synonymous with Socialism. Because both signify the abolition of exploitation and of the domination of man over man, whether maintained by the force of arms or by the monopolization of the means of life.
“I've been very near death. And you can't imagine the wild elation of those moments- it's the sudden glimpse of the absurdity of life that brings it- when one meets death face to face."
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
Love the life you live. Live the life you love.
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
I discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire. It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
“It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.”
Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.
I feel my heart melting In the mildness like candles: My veins are slow oil And not wine, And I feel my life fleeing Hushed and gentle like the gazelle.
We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow,’ his name is today.
I only live for the moments I am in the podium and in order to live those moments, I spend my life preparing myself with discipline, doubts and humility.
It is your duty in life to save your dream.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
“Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
As we observe children, we see the vitality of their spirit, the maximum effort put forth in all they do, the intuition, attention and focus they bring to all life’s events, and the sheer joy they experience in living.
The colors live a remarkable life of their own after they have been applied to the canvas.
Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.
life is a deep sleep of which love is the dream.
Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.
Love is the axis and breath of my life.
I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
Life shrinks or expands according to one's courage.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
Thanks to life, for what has given me
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
All I've done all my life is disobey.
All I've done all my life is disobey.
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”
The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
Passions are the gales of life.
All life is problem solving.
I've tried to lead a straight, clean life, not set any kind of a bad example.
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the people. He must beautify life and defend it. He must be a citizen first and foremost, so that his art might consciously extol human life and lead man to a radiant future.
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so unpleasant to recall in later life that he would expunge them entirely from his memory if that were possible.
Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.
Life is defined by the Law of Force and Necessity (the more you beat necessity the stronger you get)
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
All my life, you've told me that the world is a dark, cruel place. But now I see that the only thing dark and cruel about it is people like you!”
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
Life is a disease, brother, and death begins already at birth. Every breath, every heartbeat, is a moment of dying - a little shove toward the end.
Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.
I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.
“I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable…. But I don’t seem to have a single real friend!”
To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
It is not peace that I seek, but life.
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it.
Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
“Life is not the way it's supposed to be, it's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference”
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.
Need and boredom are the two poles of human life.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought.
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Words, words to weave, Into prose, into verse, Varied as life,
In practice, life conceals its remarkable people until big events occur and reveal them.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
God is the hope, we all have inside us and keep us alive. God is the soul, or otherwise the energy we have inside us and help us to deal with everything in life. God is the birth, a new life from nothing, from no existence to existence.
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
Life is not to live alone.
“In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome.
It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.
A good book is an event in my life.
Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.
Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one.
I haven't understood a single piece of music in my life, but I have felt it.
People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.
Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.
Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.
May you live every day of your life.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.
Ah, earthly life burns in a myriad splendours
While there is life, there is hope.
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.
Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.
Oh, privileged mortal you enjoy lifelong honor and perfect ease!
Dreyfus is innocent. I swear it! I stake my life on it — my honor!
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.