Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.
As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There’s a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.
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. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
I believe that without memories there is no life, and that our memories should be of happy times.
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
Life is not simple, and people can’t be boxed into being either heroes or villains.
Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy’s temptations.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
