Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

Actor’s life is very long.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Life isn’t fair, but God is.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Life is a dead-end street.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Art is the proper task of life.

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

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

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.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

This is not a bad life.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Life well spent is long.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

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

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

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

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.