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

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

I know what it feels like to struggle to get the education that you need.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

I try to make it look easy, but the behind-the-scenes stuff is the challenge.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

For victory in life, we’ve got to keep focused on the goal, and the goal is Heaven.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and day. They have not yet discovered the pearl of great price, or they would have sold their all to buy the field wherein it lies.

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

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.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

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

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.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

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

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

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

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

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

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

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

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

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

Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn’t speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Passions are the gales of life.

Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.