Fate pulls you in different directions.

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood – never.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

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

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

An unused life is an early death.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

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

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Time stays, we go.

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

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.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

‚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.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

I work very hard, and I play very hard. I’m grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

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

My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It’s when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.