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

Life is a dead-end street.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

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

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

If you don’t live your life, then who will?

You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Science and mindfulness complement each other in helping people to eat well and maintain their health and well-being.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

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

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

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 can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story, but music sometimes, just music itself, can turn into more of a maths problem. I guess everything in life is a math problem, but it can be more about an empirical route to getting the symmetry that you want, and this vibe, sonically.

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

You have to stay fresh and blank in your mind when you go out to bat. You complicate things, and you’re gone.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

My life is my argument.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

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

I like to let things breathe.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

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.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.