All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

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

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

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.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

For something to collapse, not all systems have to shut down. In most cases, just one system is enough. For example, the human body is a system of systems. If just one system, such as the cardiovascular system, shuts down, death follows.

My life has been very full.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

It is natural to die as to be born.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

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.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Life is precious.

Life is short, the art long.

Just as discipline and freedom are opposing forces that must be balanced, leadership requires finding the equilibrium in the dichotomy of many seemingly contradictory qualities between one extreme and another.

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

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

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

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

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.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a sense of tragedy without having a sense of humor.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.