Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
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 figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around.
No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
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.
Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.
My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.