Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Life is precious.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

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

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

I’ve been fortunate to have had the life I had prior to Hollywood. I wasn’t starving; I was going to eat the next day.

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

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.

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

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

I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Life is wasted on the living.

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

There is no wealth but life.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‚light‘ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Mandela’s heroism is the heroism of a man who suffered so badly for what he thought of as freedom. And yet when he had the upper hand he has this incredible self-control and these incredible leadership qualities.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

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.

Death is a fearful thing.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I think if we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

My life has been very full.

Our life is made by the death of others.

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

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.