The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

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.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I’m a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve.

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.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

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

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

A useless life is an early death.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

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.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

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

From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

It is natural to die as to be born.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

Actor’s life is very long.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Life is a dead-end street.

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.

Without music, life would be a mistake.