417 quotes
“One who has mastered himself is a far greater hero than one who has conquered a thousand times a thousand men on the battlefield.”
— Gautama Buddha
“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”
— Arthur Rubinstein
“It is not length of life, but depth of life.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on”
— Robert Frost
“A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step, and a life of purpose begins with a single honest thought.”
— Unknown
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”
— Nora Ephron
“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it is worth watching.”
“You don't have to live your life the way other people expect you to.”
— Chris Guillebeau
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Life is simple it is just not easy but simplicity makes even the hard parts bearable”
— William Wordsworth
“Life is the sum of all your choices.”
— Albert Camus
“The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships.”
— Robin Sharma
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.”
— Robert Byrne
“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
— Diane Ackerman
“Love is the river of life in this world.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“We do not what we ought, what we ought not we do, and lean upon the thought that chance will bring us through.”
— Matthew Arnold
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”
— Mary Oliver
“In the end, just three things matter: how well we have lived, how well we have loved, how well we have learned to let go.”
— Jack Kornfield
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.”
— Rabindranath Tagore
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale when we approach it with a sense of wonder”
— Hans Christian Andersen
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life in pursuit of peace.”
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings”
— Okakura Kakuzo
“In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“We are most alive when we're in love.”
— John Updike
“There is grandeur in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed into forms full of wonder”
— Charles Darwin
“Faith is the force of life and without it there would be nothing to sustain us through difficulty”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— Theophrastus
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“Between your birth and your death, there is the life you lived and the life you wished you had lived. Make them the same.”
— Thiruvalluvar
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.”
— Charles Dickens
“Between your birth and your death, wander through this world in wonder.”
— Rumi
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene.”
— Epictetus
“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside us while we live.”
— Norman Cousins
“Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.”
— Alvin Toffler
“Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”
“Life well spent is long.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.”
— Seneca
“The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.”
— Oscar Wilde
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it I must listen to my life telling me who I am through compassion”
— Parker Palmer
“Learning is the light of life.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Life and dreams are leaves of the same book. Reading them in order is living; browsing through them is dreaming.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer
“Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone you can't live without.”
— Rafael Ortiz
“Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's beautiful. But most of the time, it's both.”
— Lana Lang
“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life.”
— Joseph Campbell
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”
— William Shakespeare
“Life is nothing without friendship”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Everything changes.”
— Heraclitus
“Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
— Kakuzo Okakura
“Do not live the same year 75 times and call it a life”
“All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruin.”
— Ovid
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”
— Joyce Brothers
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
— Allen Saunders
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“No man is a failure who is enjoying life.”
— William Feather
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Plato
“Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.”
— William Morris
“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard
“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe, before it's gone.”
“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”
— Viktor E. Frankl
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
“Where there is love there is life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“When I think of art I think of beauty beauty is the mystery of life”
— Agnes Martin
“Life is trying things to see if they work.”
— Ray Bradbury
“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
“There is no such thing as failure failure is just life trying to move us in another direction”
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it without wonder”
“Dreams are necessary to life.”
— Anais Nin
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.”
— Plutarch
“The purpose of life is a life of purpose.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life: it goes on.”
“Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life.”
— Martin Seligman
“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Study is the seasoning of life.”
“Life is a school, and living is learning.”
— Henry Ford
“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.”
— William Wallace
“One who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”
— Lao Tzu
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
“In solitude we find that our life is not diminished but expanded”
— Thomas Merton
“The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster”
— David Hume
“The world is a traveller's inn, not his dwelling place.”
“One must not always think so much about what one should do, but rather what one should be. Our works do not ennoble us; but we must ennoble our works.”
— Meister Eckhart
“Don't dream your life, live your dreams.”
“Design is not for philosophy its for life”
— Issey Miyake
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on through time”
“The world is a traveller's inn, not an abode.”
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.”
— Socrates
“Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet.”
— Sarah Louise Delany
“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
— John Dewey
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans”
— John Lennon
“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.”
— Bob Moawad
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift of life is yours; it is an amazing journey; and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.”
“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”
— Pearl S. Buck
“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“Life is art art is life I never separate it”
— Ai Weiwei
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
— William James
“In the end it is not the years in your life that count it is the life in your years”
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
— Thornton Wilder
“Between your birth and your death there is a unique opportunity; do not let it slip by unlived.”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”
“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
— Vincent van Gogh
“Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
— Franklin P. Jones
“The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.”
— Tony Robbins
“Life, if well lived, is long enough.”
“Without music life would be a mistake”
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
— Virginia Woolf
“We have two lives and the second begins when we realize we only have one best discovered alone”
— Confucius
“In three words I can sum up everything I learned about life it goes on”
“A creative life is an amplified life a bigger life a happier life”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have lived it; I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.”
“Life is like a camera. Just focus on what’s important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, just take another shot.”
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
“Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.”
— Baltasar Gracián
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.”
“If you resist change you resist life”
— Sadhguru
“If you cannot see yourself working with someone for life, do not work with them for a day.”
— Naval Ravikant
“Live your own life.”
— Kant
“Emotions can get in the way or get you on the way.”
— Meryl Streep
“Look to this day for it is life the very life of life.”
— Kalidasa
“Change is the only constant in life.”
“Dwell on the beauty of life watch the stars and see yourself running with them”
“I don't dream at night, I dream all day; I dream for a living.”
— Steven Spielberg
“The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.”
— John F. Kennedy
“The only constant in life is change.”
“The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.”
“The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy. That is all that matters.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”
— Pablo Picasso
“Three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind”
— Henry James
“Because you are alive everything is possible.”
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.”
“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”
— Max Muller
“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us.”
— Marcel Proust
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
— Mae West
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to the amount of wonder we bring to it each day”
“Your children are not your children they are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself born into wonder”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray
“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
— Langston Hughes
“There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.”
— George Sand
“Life without study is merely death.”
“To be an artist is to believe in life”
— Henry Moore
“The only permanent thing is change.”
“Life is a song sing it. Life is a game play it. Life is a challenge meet it.”
— Sai Baba
“All that exists changes.”
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me like the swift flight of a sparrow through a banqueting hall in winter.”
— Bede
“You are one decision away from a totally different life.”
— Mel Robbins
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.”
— Alan Watts
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
— Emily Dickinson
“There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.”
— Federico Fellini
“Let life happen to you for believe me life is in the right always full of wonder waiting to be discovered”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“To live without Hope is to Cease to live.”
“Instead of wondering when your next vacation is maybe you should set up a life you dont need to escape from”
— Seth Godin
“We are a spectacular splendid manifestation of life.”
— Lewis Thomas
“It's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
“The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union.”
— John of the Cross
“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.”
“Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult.”
— Hippocrates
“All works no matter what or by whom painted are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles unless they are painted after life”
— Caravaggio
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”
— Marie Curie
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
— Morrie Schwartz
“How will you measure your life not by avoiding failure but by what you built despite it”
— Clayton Christensen
“I dont want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.”
“An unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Life is a school, and learning is the goal.”
— Robert Kiyosaki
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.”
— William Cowper
“Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything.”
— José Saramago
“What a wonderful life I had. I only wish I had realized it sooner.”
— Colette
“All life is yoga every moment can be used for spiritual growth”
— Sri Aurobindo
“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards with wonder lighting the way”
— Soren Kierkegaard
“The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.”
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
— Gail Sheehy
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
“If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
— Aristotle
“As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is that matters.”
“The moth does not see the flame as fire; the fish does not feel the water as wet. So we do not notice the medium of our own lives.”
— Zhuangzi
“The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day.”
“Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.”
“I started painting because I had nothing else to do and then it became my life”
— Yoshitomo Nara
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
“Do not fear death, but fear a life that is not understood.”
“Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone elses life.”
— Steve Jobs
“Into each life some rain must fall.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Emotions are the greatest poetry of life.”
— Bryant McGill
“Life is partly what we make it and partly what it is made by the friends and family we choose.”
— Tennessee Williams
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
“Be as simple as you can be you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated life can become”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.”
“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
“For life and death are one even as the river and the sea are one.”
“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”
“Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.”
“Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.”
“Learning is the bread of life.”
“We do not live for the sake of living, but to do something worth the while.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are”
“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself.”
“Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.”
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give”
— Winston Churchill
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
“All life is yoga”
“There is nothing permanent except change.”
“Our life is frittered away by detail simplify simplify”
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on.”
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it.”
— Charles Swindoll
“Because you are alive everything is possible”
“To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.”
“Live as you think.”
— Rousseau
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
— Taylor Swift
“The meaning of life is just to be alive and that is so plain so obvious and so simple yet everyone rushes past this wonder”
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.”
— Bob Goff
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Life is made up of marble and mud.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
“The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.”
“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
— Anne Frank
“The more you praise and celebrate your life the more there is in life to celebrate.”
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
— Paul Gauguin
“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.”
— Thomas Fuller
“While there is life there is hope.”
— Cicero
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
“Life itself is education.”
— Einstein
“Life is always in the present tense.”
— Charlotte Joko Beck
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
“Each day provides its own gifts.”
— Martial
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.”
— Omar Khayyam
“We are learning until the day we die.”
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Have faith in life itself and life will take care of you beyond what you can imagine”
— Osho
“The only thing permanent in life is change.”
“The better part of ones life consists of friendships”
“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”
“Life begins on the other side of despair.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
— Vincent Van Gogh
“Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”
“Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience this is the ideal life”
— Mark Twain
“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences of compassion.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows”
— D.T. Suzuki
“Life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated”
“Where there is hope there is life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
— Thales
“A life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a small number of great ones”
— Roald Dahl
“The only thing constant in life is change.”
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
— Carl Rogers
“The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.”
— T.S. Eliot
“Do not seek peace in still pools. In dynamic life alone is peace to be found.”
— Dag Hammarskjold
“All humans live towards death.”
— Hegel
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
“A man who does not think is not truly living.”
— Descartes
“Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.”
“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
— Tom Wolfe
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
— Franz Kafka
“Design is not for philosophy it is for life”
“If you do not live as you think, you will think as you live.”
— Paul Valéry
“To be creative means to be in love with life.”
“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life longing for itself.”
“We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.”
“This is the real secret of life: to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now.”
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.”
“It is not the length of life, but depth of life.”
“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death the soft and yielding is the disciple of life”
— Laozi
“The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.”
“Education is not preparation for life education is life itself”
“As is a tale so is life not how long it is but how good it is is what matters”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.”
— Ben Franklin
“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.”
“Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
— Grandma Moses
“Life is nothing without friendship.”
“The world is a great book, of which those who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“There is no wealth but life.”
— John Ruskin
“In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.”
“O Lord that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.”
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”
“Fearing death is not knowing life.”
“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.”
— Frank Sinatra
“We live as we think.”
“Life must be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next.”
“Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.”
— Tennessee Claflin
“Life always gives us exactly the teacher we need at every moment”
“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
— James Dean
“Without friends no one would choose to live though he had all other goods”
“Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans.”
“Emotions are the most potent forces that govern our lives.”
“We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.”
— Menander
“One cannot step twice into the same river.”
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“No man is quick enough to enjoy life to the full.”
— Marcus Valerius Martial
“I dont think about art when I work I try to think about life”
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Life is available only in the present moment.”
“To love life more than the meaning of it is the most resilient stance of all”
— Dostoevsky
“We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.”
“Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.”
— Margaret Lee Runbeck
“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”
— Milarepa
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty.”
“Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“A creative life is an amplified life. It is a bigger life a happier life an expanded life and a hell of a lot more interesting life.”
“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity; the knowledge of the world will keep you from despair.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
“Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”
— George Santayana
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