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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

We live in a bewildering world.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.

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 is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Life is a dead-end street.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Unbeing dead isn’t being alive.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

My life is my message.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I don’t expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

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 cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

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

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

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

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

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

Nature teaches us that tens of billions of light years may have passed, and life in all of its expressions has always been subjected to an incredible combination of matter and radiation.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

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

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

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

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

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

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms – in themselves such judgments are stupidities.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

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.

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

You are doomed to make choices. This is life’s greatest paradox.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.