It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.
Julius CaesarThe soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor DostoevskySome may never live, but the crazy never die.
Hunter S. ThompsonChildren make your life important.
Erma BombeckLiving indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.
Robert Baden-PowellI don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.
Jane GoodallWhether for life or death, do your own work well.
John RuskinTell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo CoelhoThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph AddisonIf 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.
Joseph AddisonIt is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLife is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
Virginia WoolfI’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.
RihannaDeath and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
ConfuciusCherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon HillMy mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Mark TwainThe feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
Kurt VonnegutJust as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
BuddhaThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
John F. KennedyGolf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
B. C. ForbesI was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.
SocratesIs life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
William JamesWhen people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.
Mark ZuckerbergReligion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.
VoltaireGenerosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul SartreReal life? Well, I just hope mine isn’t investigated. They might find that I don’t really exist – that I’m just a hologram.
Steven WrightGod has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
Joel OsteenDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin FranklinIt’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.
Alice WalkerDreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
Carl JungReality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.
Joe BidenLife’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?
Conor McGregorThe happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Elbert HubbardWho would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne FrankFor this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy CarterFind ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily DickinsonIf we don’t know life, how can we know death?
ConfuciusThere is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
Henry David ThoreauThere is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo EmersonChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. KennedyWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghMy life has been very full.
Dolly PartonIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Jesus ChristI don’t know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
Taylor SwiftAstronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
PlatoSome 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.
Tennessee WilliamsTo 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.
BuddhaThe best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.
Robert Baden-PowellLife could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie ChaplinThe 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.
Charles SpurgeonThey are resilient children, but they are children, and as much as they need help to understand the hard truths in life, they also need what we all need – protection and love.
Angelina JolieComedians are sociologists. We’re pointing out stuff that the general public doesn’t even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
Steven WrightAn election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard ShawI want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
George Bernard ShawIt is better to live rich than to die rich.
Samuel JohnsonWe might as well die as to go on living like this.
Charlie ChaplinJudgments, 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.
Friedrich NietzscheI’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.
David BowiePart of my daily regime is my glucosamine and, of course, a multitude of multivitamins. Branched-chain amino acids, glutamine, of course protein. I have one protein shake a day, and that is immediately after my training.
Dwayne Johnson