A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I live in a crazy time.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

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

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Passions are the gales of life.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

There is no wealth but life.

Life is anything but predictable.

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

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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

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

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 life is made by the death of others.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

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.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Art is the proper task of life.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Life is wasted on the living.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.