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.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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

We forge the chains we wear in life.

If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it’s my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

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

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

My life is my message.

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

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

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.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

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

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I’ve always appreciated a turn of phrase.

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.