Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Out of a hundred years a few minutes were made that stayed with me, not a hundred years.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the length of eternity.

I detest the man who hides on thing in the depths of his heart and speaks forth another.

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us

If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?

Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

All trials force the question, Who are you really? And you must trust yourself to answer

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Make changes in your life; don't wear the same roads out, start walking on the new paths!

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

We must study things we will never use, but which someone told us were important to know.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.

I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes, Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.

In this life, it's not what you hope for, it's not what you deserve - it's what you take!

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

If you hold on to the negative, there is no room for the positive to come into your life.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.

Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.

We may think God wants actions of a certain kind, but God wants people of a certain kind.

Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.

It is not necessary to live, But to carve our names beyond that point, This is necessary.

The moment that he begins to walk along it, the warrior of the light recognizes the path.

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

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