The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Death is a fearful thing.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

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

Time stays, we go.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I don’t know how much longer I’ll be around. I’ll probably be writing when the Lord says, ‚Maya, Maya Angelou, it’s time.‘

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

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.

Our life is made by the death of others.

What we live by we die by.

All fiction is about people, unless it’s about rabbits pretending to be people. It’s all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time and changes taking place, and that’s what we call ‚the plot‘.

And no, we don’t know where it will lead. We just know there’s something much bigger than any of us here.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

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?

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Once people are aware of your presence, and perhaps vaguely intrigued, you need to stir their interest before it settles on someone else.

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

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

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

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

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

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

Confine yourself to the present.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.