The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

My life is a struggle.

Courage is a kind of salvation.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

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.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

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

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

We’re going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

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

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

‚Pure experience‘ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Life must be lived as play.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

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.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I’ve done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

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

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that’s the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don’t understand.