To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

The 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.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Our life is made by the death of others.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

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

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

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

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Life is short, the art long.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

What we live by we die by.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

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

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

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

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.