Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

As you heat the planet up, it’s just like boiling a pot.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

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

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Life’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Life would pall if it were all sugar; salt is bitter if taken by itself; but when tasted as part of the dish, it savours the meat. Difficulties are the salt of life.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

My life is my message.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

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.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

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.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

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.

There is nothing permanent except change.

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

One who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

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

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

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

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

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

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.