The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.

Haters are confused admirers who can’t understand why everybody else likes you

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The Warrior does not worry that, to others, his behavior might seem quite mad.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

In life, it's not who you know that's important, it's how your wife found out.

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist. Jesus Christ is risen from the dead.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do.

Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.

Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a f**king sharp knife to it.

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Spirit and body, when joined together, become a living soul of supernal worth.

Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.

The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns.

Life has a way of shining on people who stand in the sunshine of kind actions.

I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

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