The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

Life is anything but predictable.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

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

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.

The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Life is precious.

I can’t usually stomach a project after I finish it, but for those days and weeks and months that it’s new to me, I do listen to it, and it might change over time, but it’s about function.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Everything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.