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 too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

Life’s a rollercoaster. You’re up one minute; you’re down one minute. But who doesn’t like rollercoasters?

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

My life is my argument.

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

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

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

There is nothing permanent except change.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Life is warfare.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

My whole life is a theater piece.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Change alone is unchanging.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

I always liked different things, rare things.

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.

Life must be lived as play.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

God made me and broke the mold.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

This has been my life for many years; one role feeds the other.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.