Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

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.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

An unused life is an early death.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

It is natural to die as to be born.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

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

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people’s lives present themselves.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

People have more freedom to bring more of their personal qualities into the role they play once they have established themselves and their competence is no longer in question. But this is always within limits.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

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.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

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.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

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

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

If you’re really satisfied with your position on something, you just say, ‚Hey;‘ you just very calmly present something.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.

There is no wealth but life.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I don’t have freedom in the United States to go into a public school and preach the Gospel, nor is a student free in a public school to pray, or a teacher free to read the Bible publicly to the students. At the same time, we have a great degree of freedom for which I am grateful.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

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

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.