One day it will be over, and I don’t care.
Karl LagerfeldArt, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconTruth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis BaconEnthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee WilliamsMan is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert CamusMyth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.
J. R. R. TolkienMore gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon HillThe abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.
Friedrich NietzscheMy favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.
Steve JobsThinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. RowlingWho would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
Anne FrankWe moralize among ruins.
Benjamin DisraeliI mean… in life… what relationship is easy?
The WeekndOur greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas JeffersonThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
Henry David ThoreauThe 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.
John F. KennedyAlthough 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.
Pope FrancisIf you don’t live your life, then who will?
RihannaThere is no such thing as Something for nothing.
Napoleon HillIt’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.
Bill GatesIs man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?
Friedrich NietzscheWe must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard ShawDeath, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Marcus AureliusLife’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.
Jeff BezosHumor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Mark TwainThe impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
Douglas AdamsWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston ChurchillFor modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.
Alexander PopeI believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C. S. LewisThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. EisenhowerMeans we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.
Billy GrahamAs a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann HesseWisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOld age is just a record of one’s whole life.
Muhammad AliFor having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
Benjamin FranklinLife’s short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Amy WinehouseHalf our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will RogersLife levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard ShawLive-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.
Brene BrownWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThat government is best which governs least.
Henry David ThoreauOnce you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.
Richard M. NixonOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund BurkeYet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia WoolfIf a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
Friedrich NietzscheWe are an impossibility in an impossible universe.
Ray BradburyShall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?
Alexander the GreatRespect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?
Marilyn MonroeThe end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas CarlyleEach life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen KingNothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
Friedrich NietzscheForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouIt’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.
Terry PratchettThere is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack LondonI can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer