I love life because what more is there?

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it – this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

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.

A useless life is an early death.

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

Comedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

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

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

Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Life is wasted on the living.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.