Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von GoethePoverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?
BonoIn the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Khalil GibranMay you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel KantFriends are thieves of time.
Francis BaconRead no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
Benjamin DisraeliLife is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar WildeThe compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.
Lando NorrisPlato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
Isaac NewtonA great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Ludwig van BeethovenNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
Henry David ThoreauMe and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.
DrakeLife is precious.
John KennedyLove, we say, is life; but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
Elbert HubbardSo many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?
Tom BradyLife doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.
Woody AllenI respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.
DrakeThe happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert HubbardThere are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Albert SchweitzerNowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
Benjamin DisraeliJune Jordan, who died of cancer in 2002, was a brilliant, fierce, radical, and frequently furious poet. We were friends for thirty years. Not once in that time did she step back from what was transpiring politically and morally in the world. She spoke up, and led her students, whom she adored, to do the same.
Alice WalkerIf you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Desmond TutuI believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.
Steve JobsForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouLife becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.
Albert SchweitzerMan weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. MenckenFor life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
Khalil GibranDon’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.
Lou HoltzNo evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
PlatoIn order to have friends, you must first be one.
Elbert HubbardTo a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.
F. Scott FitzgeraldPassions are the gales of life.
Alexander PopeI think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
Paul AusterSuch is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
Samuel JohnsonRemember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.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.
Henry David ThoreauWe are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
William ShakespeareLife is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie ChaplinA man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
Henry David ThoreauLife is too short for long-term grudges.
Elon MuskIf I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.
Angelina JolieDeath to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.
Bob DylanThere is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar WildeA slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George WashingtonAlthough 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 FrancisMy 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.
Russell M. NelsonMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonIf he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.
Martin LutherI don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallOne 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.
Joan of ArcEvery man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
Ernest HemingwayIf one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
Virginia WoolfOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee WilliamsMy best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
AristotleAll of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.
John C. MaxwellI know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.
Madeleine AlbrightMy best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
Henry FordWhat sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Marcus Aurelius