Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

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.

I’ve always wanted a baby.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

A useless life is an early death.

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.

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.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

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

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

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.

I always believed that when you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel great to you, you can never lose, because settling is the worst feeling in the world.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

My life is real.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.