Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

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

Children make your life important.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

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

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

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.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

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.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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

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

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

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

All the time, I’ve felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn’t.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

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.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.

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

I have such incredible experiences in my life.

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.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren’t able to live in the place you called home.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask ‚Why?‘ ceaselessly.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

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

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

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

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

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

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

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.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

An unused life is an early death.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.