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

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I’m really not worth being called an artist at all.

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.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Life is a dead-end street.

We live in a bewildering world.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

I bear a charmed life.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

There is a ‚sanctity‘ involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.