Life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny.

Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown - even when we don’t want to and when we think we don’t need to.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie.

Your time is limited so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Nothing has saddened me so much in life as the hardness of heart of educated people.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me and I spent a year or a year and a half of my life working on it.

The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

We are all prisoners, but some of us are in cells with windows and some without.

The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most.

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand, the angels come to visit us and we only know them when they are gone.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Life is a series of dogs

Life every man holds dear, but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

To lengthen thy life lessen thy meals.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

To be idle is a short road to death, and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently, but he is willing in great crises to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worth-while to live.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune

True education is not for a mere living but for a fuller and meaningful life.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story, if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

If a man neglects education he walks lame to the end of his life.

There is no such thing in life as normal.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

Discipline is the mark of intelligent living

Each time I thought I had achieved my life’s purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey.

I'm a heroine addict. I need to have sex with women who have saved someone's life.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

In theory, one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

Religion is not a department of life, it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

As you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Reality is merely an illusion albeit a very persistent one.

Having a home, husband and child ought to be enough for any woman's life. I mean, that's what we are meant for, isn't it? But still I think every day is a lost day. As if only half of me is alive. The other half is pressed down in a bag and suffocated.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand, nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If many years were added to my life I would give fifty to the study of the Book of Changes and might thereby manage to avoid great mistakes.

Nobody can write the life of a man, but those who have eat, and drunk, and lived in social intercourse with him.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides, and in this respect it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Some choices we live not only once, but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

We spend our time searching for security, and hate it when we get it.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

To live a pure unselfish life one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

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.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural and enjoyable.

It's much easier for me to make major life multi-million dollar decisions than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

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.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life you have to begin with the spirit.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

In dwelling live close to the ground. In thinking keep to the simple. In conflict be fair and generous. In governing don't try to control. In work do what you enjoy. In family life be completely present.

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves, but to be themselves praised by posterity by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

One must marry one's feelings to one's beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one's life.

Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

The wheel is come full circle: I am here.

Life is hard, it's harder if you're stupid.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

If you don't change your beliefs your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are the more human you are.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

As far as we can discern the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Life comes from the earth and life returns to the earth.

Life is a gift and it offers us the privilege, opportunity and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Giving the best to others is giving the best to ourselves. The value of life is not based on how long we live, but how much we can contribute to others in our society.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

Let your whole life be a spiritual song.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life, now that I am old I know that it is.

At fifteen, life had taught me undeniably that surrender in its place was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation, rather than upon mere survival.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw something back.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

It concerns us to know the purposes we seek in life, for then like archers aiming at a definite mark we shall be more likely to attain what we want.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas, in order to appear consistent, drives himself into a false position.

Life is like a grapefruit. Well it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside too. Oh and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

He who binds to himself a joy, Does the winged life destroy, But he who kisses the joy as it flies, Lives in eternity's sunrise.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on and fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on life's path.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

If you're respectful by habit constantly honoring the worthy four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.

Education is a social process, education is growth, education is not a preparation for life but is life itself.

Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life which fade and are tasteless without it.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence, the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

I sold the memoirs of my sex life to a publisher - they are going to make a board game out of it.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

As a child I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

In nine lifetimes you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

He who experiences the unity of life, sees his own Self in all beings and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.

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.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experiences, that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world beyond the horizon.

One's personality can blossom only when he leads a moral life.

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.

Look at my life. I'm floating like mercury around the earth. My footprints shine with stardust. All because I love you. All because you love me.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives.

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life?

In poverty and other misfortunes of life true friends are a sure refuge.

You are not a beautiful unique snowflake... This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

When the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death - the brave lives on.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Man being reasonable must get drunk, the best of life is but intoxication.

Of life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart, and the second in a laborer's hand.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

Death and life have their determined appointments, riches and honors depend upon heaven.

To put the world in order we must first put the nation in order, to put the nation in order we must put the family in order, to put the family in order we must cultivate our personal life, and to cultivate our personal life we must first set our hearts right.

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Sometimes you do something and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do and you get screwed.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

During the first period of a man's life, the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

The eye of a human being is a microscope which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels, and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent, and he is never bored and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

As soon as there is life, there is danger.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Tsze-Kung asked "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others".

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles to be sure, but scattered along life's pathway the good they do is inconceivable.

The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold, service was joy.

'Tis better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food, therefore if he eats meat he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

Half my lifetime I have earned my living by selling words and, I hope, thoughts.

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it, with its humanity, is more unique than many have thought.

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much power you have.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Men create gods after their own image not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence, but in the mastery of his passions.

It's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like saving sex for your old age. Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

If we survive danger, it steels our courage more than anything else.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Every being in the universe has the potentiality of transcending the senses. Even the little worm will one day transcend the senses and reach God. No life will be a failure. There is no such thing as failure in the universe.

Politicians also have no leisure because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory or happiness.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked, a song that's spoke. I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.

I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn't have it.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Conflicts and factions, violence and upheavals are caused by the neglect of human values in daily life.

Life is suffering.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Without recognizing the ordinances of Heaven it is impossible to be a superior man.

To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body, it is starvation of the soul the dweller in the body.

Love is the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my works.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I'm thankful for the incredible advances in medicine that have taken place during my lifetime. I almost certainly wouldn't still be here if it weren't for them.

I'm not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

Miracles in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog, which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

People teach their dogs to sit, it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise, to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.

Ignorance and error are necessary to life like bread and water.

The state exists for the sake of a good life and not for the sake of life only

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

It is better to live in peace than in bitterness and strife.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Our life is made by the death of others.

I can tell you honest friend what to believe: believe life, it teaches better that book or orator.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Life is a gift and i try to respond with grace and courtesy

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient, in living it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

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.

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.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice though, not in principle.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life, not so much by what happens to you, as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes Sin's a pleasure

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, foremost to defend.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on, but where life in its real sense is lost.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well on the surface of a gas covered planet, going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away, and think this to be normal, is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Teachers who educate children deserve more honor than parents who merely gave birth, for bare life is furnished by the one, the other ensures a good life.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

You must trust and believe in people, or life becomes impossible.

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

My wife, and my three kids, and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I, if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.