Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaReally I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston ChurchillAt his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.
AristotleMy days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.
Charles BukowskiLife is just one damned thing after another.
Elbert HubbardThe formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.
Fyodor DostoevskyThink occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert SchweitzerWhen you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor RooseveltFiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Virginia WoolfSo convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin FranklinWithout football, my life is worth nothing.
Cristiano RonaldoAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel KantSometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.
Jim MattisLife is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.
Muhammad AliWhatever you have, you must either use or lose.
Henry FordWhat matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.
Robert GreeneThere is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
Samuel JohnsonHe who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad AliI mean… in life… what relationship is easy?
The WeekndModeration is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Eckhart TolleNon-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
Mahatma GandhiPessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.
Golda MeirWhen making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel JohnsonAt the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.
Michelle ObamaTo die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. MenckenAt any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert CamusThe worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
AristotleIt is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Franklin D. RooseveltA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerCulture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert CamusHabit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise PascalFreedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
Mahatma GandhiIt is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy CarterIt is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.
Nelson MandelaMany people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.
Thich Nhat HanhYouth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas CarlyleTo the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
Marcus AureliusEither you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
Noam ChomskyA chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
William JamesI have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne WestwoodEgoism is the very essence of a noble soul.
Friedrich NietzscheA belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.
Aldous Huxley‚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.
William JamesIf you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
Woody AllenMy one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody AllenIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauReality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
Joe BidenThe finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
Blaise PascalHope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
Alexander PopeFreedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mahatma GandhiAnd yet it moves.
Galileo GalileiTime is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Douglas AdamsAnd 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.
Robert FrostI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise PascalLife would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard ShawAlthough the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.
Pope FrancisAt the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. On the cranky left, that is very annoying; I can see that.
BonoThere is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.
Albert CamusLife is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
Benjamin Disraeli