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.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

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

The heart is forever inexperienced.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

In war, you win or lose, live or die – and the difference is just an eyelash.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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.

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

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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

I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

If you don’t know your full-throttle history, the whole story of how you came to where you are, it’s kind of hard to put things together.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

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.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

A worthy woman personifies the truly noble and worthwhile attributes of life.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

To be awake is to be alive.

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.

Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.