Every loss of life is terrible.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

I just always wanted to study human behavior because every psychologist that I would talk to would tell me I was bipolar, and I know I’m not bipolar, so I had to perform a psychoanalysis on myself to find out that I have unresolved grief.

We live in a bewildering world.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

‚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.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Change alone is unchanging.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Jesus never mistreated anyone just because they mistreated Him. He confronted them in a spirit of gentleness and then continued to love them.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Anybody who has been discriminated against, who comes from a group that’s been discriminated against, knows what it’s like.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

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.

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.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

If you wished to be loved, love.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.