Life is precious.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Life is our dictionary.

The only way to take sorrow out of death is to take love out of life.

I am two with nature.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God’s law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Trust is the glue of life. It’s the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It’s the foundational principle that holds all relationships.

An unused life is an early death.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn’t us. Don’t be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.