I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

‚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.

What we live by we die by.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

I don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

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

My life is my argument.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Finality is not the language of politics.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

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

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

The pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.

I think governments can’t do much.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.