Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

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.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Life well spent is long.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

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.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Peace begins with a smile.

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

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

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

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

I think life on Earth must be about more than just solving problems… It’s got to be something inspiring, even if it is vicarious.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

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

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

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

No violent extreme endures.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

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

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.