Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

I don’t like to see animals in pain. That was very uncomfortable to me. I don’t like factory farming. I’m not an advocate for the meat industry.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There’s no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity.

The ‚Third World‘ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Love begins by taking care of the closest ones – the ones at home.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Life is a song to me.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

It is natural to die as to be born.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.