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.

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

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Life is short, the art long.

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

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.

Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren’t susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

Life must be lived as play.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

All variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, whom I call the ‚Lord God.‘

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

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

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

I don’t think that you can be prescriptive about anything, I mean, life is too complicated. Maybe there are novels where the author has not in the least thought about it in terms of film, which can be turned into good films.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Electrical science has disclosed to us the more intimate relation existing between widely different forces and phenomena and has thus led us to a more complete comprehension of Nature and its many manifestations to our senses.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

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

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.