Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

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.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Sin is geographical.

Our life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

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

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

What an encouraging thought that Jesus – our beloved Husband – can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel’s heart.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

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.‘

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.